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Major's first novel, originally published in an expurgated edition in 1969, is finally presented intact. The disturbing story, which details the struggles of a young African American man, is filled with "violence, sex, and rage, and Major's graphic descriptions are not for the squeamish."
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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A new, unexpurgated edition of the 1969 Olympia Press novel that made Major (Dirty Bird Blues, 1996, etc.) a big name in Maurice Girodias's dirty-book pantheon. A classic autodidact, Major was one of those very bright young men of the 1950s who had read their way through Rimbaud long before theyd discovered Shakespeare or heard of Homer; this defiant opus, judging from its style, seems like the work of someone whose idea of the novel begins with Henry Miller and ends with Jean Genet. The book describes the experiences of Eli Bolton, a black Vietnam vet badly traumatized by the war and utterly disdainful of the white society he has returned to in America. A great part of the story takes shape as a succession of Bolton's rants, mostly concerned with his various conquests: the voracious Anita, the idealistic Cathy, the intellectual Eunice. Long descriptions of what Bolton does with Anita and Cathy and Eunice ensue, along with interpolated recollections of Vietnam and life on the streets in Chicago and New Yorkall written in the kind of interior patois that even Allen Ginsberg got tired of eventually (``Yeah, all kinds of battlefatigue monkeys strolling around here, bad shots hitting psychological maggie drawers all day long; I just get tired tired I keep a big funky headache all the time; lately I ain't said nothing to nobody but Dossy O, that's Cocaine which is the way my man keeps himself together''). Major offers reflections on race, politics, and society, but these are ultimately as pointless as the basic narrativeand yet less interesting. As fresh and exciting as an old Red Foxx routine, this is a good period piece for '60s junkies who don't take themselves too seriously. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Major's first novel, originally published in an expurgated edition in 1969, is finally presented intact. The disturbing story, which details the struggles of a young African American man, is filled with "violence, sex, and rage, and Major's graphic descriptions are not for the squeamish."
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
A new, unexpurgated edition of the 1969 Olympia Press novel that made Major (Dirty Bird Blues, 1996, etc.) a big name in Maurice Girodias's dirty-book pantheon. A classic autodidact, Major was one of those very bright young men of the 1950s who had read their way through Rimbaud long before theyd discovered Shakespeare or heard of Homer; this defiant opus, judging from its style, seems like the work of someone whose idea of the novel begins with Henry Miller and ends with Jean Genet. The book describes the experiences of Eli Bolton, a black Vietnam vet badly traumatized by the war and utterly disdainful of the white society he has returned to in America. A great part of the story takes shape as a succession of Bolton's rants, mostly concerned with his various conquests: the voracious Anita, the idealistic Cathy, the intellectual Eunice. Long descriptions of what Bolton does with Anita and Cathy and Eunice ensue, along with interpolated recollections of Vietnam and life on the streets in Chicago and New Yorkall written in the kind of interior patois that even Allen Ginsberg got tired of eventually (``Yeah, all kinds of battlefatigue monkeys strolling around here, bad shots hitting psychological maggie drawers all day long; I just get tired tired I keep a big funky headache all the time; lately I ain't said nothing to nobody but Dossy O, that's Cocaine which is the way my man keeps himself together''). Major offers reflections on race, politics, and society, but these are ultimately as pointless as the basic narrativeand yet less interesting. As fresh and exciting as an old Red Foxx routine, this is a good period piece for '60s junkies who don't take themselves too seriously. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- Clarence Major and His Art: Portraits of an African American Postmodernist by Bernard W. Bell on 27 pages
- Conversations with Clarence Major (Literary Conversations Series) by Nancy Bunge on 22 pages
- Contemporary Black Men's Fiction and Drama by Keith Clark on 10 pages
- Our Living Manhood: Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology by Rolland Murray on 8 pages
- After Hours: A Collection of Erotic Writing by Black Men by Various on 4 pages
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