Ishmael Reed's electrifying first novel zooms readers off to the crazy, ominous kingdom of HARRY SAM a miserable and dangerous place ruled for thirty years by Harry Sam, a former used car salesman who wields his power from his bathroom throne. In a land of a thousand contradictions peopled by cops and beatniks, black nationalists and white liberals, the crusading Bukka Doopeyduk leads a rebellion against the corrupt Sam in a wildly uproarious and scathing satire, earning the author the right to be dubbed the brightest contributor to American satire since Mark Twain (The Nation).
- ISBN10 0911860460
- ISBN13 9780911860467
- Publish Date 1 January 1975 (first published January 1969)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 January 2023
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Chatham Bookseller
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 155
- Language English