num_pages: 145
description: "Carlene Hatcher Polite's second novel (The Flagellants was published in 1967) has the readability of a social tract written by a speed freak with rhythm, and it sure do go on. The parlance falls somewhere between jive, talkin' trash, and in-the-alley upside-the-barn badmouth. Sometimes there's an address to the 'Dear Reader' but mostly this is a transcribed rap between Sister Abyssinia, costume designer, and Brother Will, who's just put down in Pads for a visit on his militant hop-skip-jump all around the world. Sister 'ssinia expostulates on Dead Worlders and Brat Women and the root of radical while also recounting the death by cancer (one of many pieces of an alliterating racial conspiracy, all of which begin with 'C') of their mutual friend Sister X a.k.a. Arista Prolo, exotic dancer par excellence whose world tour started out from Motown but ended in Gay Paree when she was replaced by a white topless-bottomless in black . . . face?" --Kirkus Review
language: English
title: Sister X and the Victims of Foul Play ...
titlecomplete: Sister X and the Victims of Foul Play ...
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux