The Last Days of Louisiana Red.

REED, Ishmael.

Item Number: 133158

New York: Random House, 1974.

First edition of the author’s sixth novel, a continuation of his popular Mumbo Jumbo. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design suggested by Ishmael Reed.

The Last Days of Louisiana Red continues the story of voodoo detective Papa LaBas, first introduced in Reed's second and immensely popular novel, Mumbo Jumbo. Set amidst the racial violence of Berkeley, California, the story offers a comprehensive satire on the explosive politics of the '60s. "Reed's hoodoo/mojo/gris gris/Mumbo Jumbo has a wickedly funny vitality that undermines white European ideology" (Kirkus Reviews).