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(0)Floyd Salas
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"We see through Aaron's eyes the structured underworld of a California prison farm dominated by sadistic perverts operating under the protection of the no-squeal code of their victims ... Apprehensive for his friend Barneyway when he first enters the prison farm, having heard that his friend has become the unresisting victim of a brutal sodomist, Aaron is moved by his friend's refusal to fight his sordid destiny to contemptuous abandonment of his...
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Using the yardstick that a short story is any fiction under 15,000 words, Ishmael Reed-- with the assistance of Carla Blank-- has assembled an anthology that reexamines the history of the form across a broader, more inclusive spectrum. The result is a collection that stretches the boundaries of the American literary landscape, including work ranging from animal stories of the Northwest Coast Eyaks to African-American folklore to reflections on the...