White Dog
New York & Cleveland, World Publishing Company, 1970.
1 vol. (145 x 215 mm) of 279 p. and [1] f. Publisher's boards, illustrated dust jacket.
First American edition. First printing, with the “first printing” statement.
White Dog offers multiple illustrations of racism, experienced and at times reversed: in the novel’s central narrative, Keys, the Black trainer, does everything he can to turn “White Dog into Black Dog,” a cold act of revenge in which he uses the same methods to oppress white people in turn. Beyond the fable, Gary is speaking of an America gripped by the demons of endemic racism and by the problem of minorities, at a time when Jean Seberg’s activism had led Gary to spend considerable time among Hollywood’s liberal circles mobilizing on behalf of Black Americans, toward whom he remained highly ironic.
A very fine copy.
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