{"product_id":"9780241315194","title":"Flight to Canada (Penguin Modern Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Reinvents the particulars of slavery in America with a comic rage ... The book explodes. Reed's special grace is anger ... a muscular, luminous prose' The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'It always was, and will always be the most fearlessly original, most viciously political, most rambunctiously funny epic of slavery ever written. America almost doesn't deserve it' - Marlon James (2015 Man Booker Prize Winner)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'I loves it here ... We gets whipped with a velvet whip, and there's free dentalcare'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThree slaves are on the run in the deep South, with their former master hot on their heels and the Civil War raging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne of them arms himself for a final showdown; one sells his body for pornographic movies; while the last, Raven Quickskill - hero, poet, heartbreaker - swigs champagne on a non-stop jumbo jet to Canada. Taking us on a wild ride through a nineteenth century littered with limousines, waterbeds and colour TVs, Flight to Canada is a surreal, madly funny satire on race in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A satirical \"neo-slave narrative\", the novel wittily conjoins the past of slavery to the present of America's bicentennial' New York Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49157948899563,"sku":"EB_LI0700_C02-01_SIMS","price":25.62,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9780241315194-1.jpg?v=1786016388","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9780241315194","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}