A Crack-Up at the Race Riots

Author(s)/Editor(s): Korine, Harmony - - Binding: QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKSYearMonthDay of Publication: 20130416Standardized Book Category: Humorous - GeneralLanguage: EnglishPage Count: 00172Large Print? : N Publisher Marketing: Originally published by Mainstreet/Doubleday in 1998, this debut novel from an underground filmmaker uses print, photographs, drawings, news clippings, handwriting, a poem, attempted diagrams, and clip art to enhance the text, which primarily tells of a race war that happens in Florida, where the Jewish people sit in trees, the black people are run by MC Hammer, and the white people are run by Vanilla Ice. Or as the author himself described it front of a national television audience, "I wanted to write the Great American Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Novel." In actuality, it is a collection of hard-luck stories, off-and-on-color jokes, script scraps, found letters, free rhymes, drug flashbacks, and other missing scenes, all exploring the wo