A chilling yet compassionate portrait of real people caught up in an American tragedy that could easily become tomorrow's reality. From the author of "Seven Days in May", "Convention", "Night of Camp David" and "Vanished."
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By Primal scream "A Hairy Guy down South" (Alexandria, La United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Trespass (Mass Market Paperback)
This book was written in an era wherein heightening racial tensions would have lent a more credible aura of dread to the tale. In a nutshell: a well-to-do family's home is essentially invaded (well before the time in which the term "home invasion" was coined, interestingly enough) by members of a militant black (African, or African-American, whichever the preferred term of the readers of this review may be) group which is focused on the secession of the Southern states of America (Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, if I remember correctly) into a conglomerate of an independent nation, which they would call Gamal, for purposes of their ethnic heritage (and possibly racial purity?). Kind of like Israel with an African slant.
It's interesting to see the descriptions of the characters. Probably interesting for the time, but really more amusing today. The idea of bell-bottomed, afro-coiffed, big-gold-medallion wearing militants might have been striking thirty years ago, but now it almost strikes me like a Saturday Night Live sketch from back in the day when that show actually took chances. While the idea of equality, and the initial idea spawned in a quote from Carl Sandberg at the beginning of the novel, is interesting enough, it unfortunately starts to careen through too much territory before sprawling face-first into tensionless melodrama. The book is like opening a soda that you've never tried before--promising before you open it: kinda tasty at first, then a little tiresome, and finally--flat.
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