"Folks. This here is the story of the Loop Garoo Kid. A cowboy so bad he
made a working posse of spells phone in sick. A bullwhacker so unfeeling
he left the print of winged mice on hides of crawling women. A desperado
so onery he made the Pope cry and the most powerful of cattlemen shed
his head to the Executioner's swine."
And so begins the HooDoo Western by Ishmael Reed, author of Mumbo
Jumbo and one of America's most innovative and celebrated writers. Reed
demolishes white American history and folklore as well as Christian myth
in this masterful satire of contemporary American life.
In addition to the black, satanic Loop Garoo Kid, Yellow Back Radio
Broke-Down features Drag Gibson (a rich, slovenly cattleman), Mustache
Sal (his nymphomaniac mail-order bride), Thomas Jefferson, and many
others in a hilarious parody of the old western.