The Multicultiboho Show

by Pate, Alexs D.

• ISBN13: 9780380976782
• ISBN10: 0380976781
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-21
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Young, unpublished African American author Ichabod "Icky" Word has summoned a police detective to his Minneapolis apartment under false pretenses. Word's true purpose is to hold hostage the unsuspecting law officer -- a tired, overweight, middle aged white man named Bloom -- while he regales his prisoner with a rambling tale of anger and woe ... and an explanation for the dead body wrapped in plastic in his living room. Which is precisely what Icky Word does -- even as a team of SWAT sharpshooters maneuvers into optimum firing positions outside of the building. The saran-wrapped corpse was once Dewitt McMichael, a maker of dreams with the power to bestow a half-million dollar "genius" grant on one lucky artist of color. The twisted roads that ultimately converged, bringing Word and McMichael together -- and the bizarre circumstances that led to the latter's demise -- are all part of a mad and maddening story that must be told; a mind-boggling chronicle of power, immorality, money, politics, racial descrimination, brilliant creation and desecration that Icky is determined to vent in full...even if it proves to be his last, desperate act on this Earth.