Prey, Messiah; a novel.
Indianapolis: Twenty-Fifth Dynasty Press, 1998. Paperback. 151p., softbound item, first edition glossy 8.5x5.5 inch wraps, a fine clean copy with a "Review Copy" rubberstamp on the title page. Epigraphs from J. Edgar Hoover (his "prevent a Black messiah" directive) and Isaiah 11:6, about utopian peace. One year after the assassination of Martin Luther King a child is born in a southern Mississippi town; efforts to kill him develop the plot.
Cat.No: 181144
ISBN: 0966175204
Price: $15.00
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1990S,
African American,
Civil Rights,
Fiction, Novels, Prose, Literature,
Lynching,
Magic-realism, magical realism,
Mississippi,
Modern first edition
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