The Hippodrome

by Cyrus Colter

Book Overview

Set in a Chicago seething with physical and psychological violence, Cyrus Colter's The Hippodrome is an examination of power and exploitation and their entanglement with sexuality. The central character, Yeager, has murdered his wife and her white lover. Fleeing the police, he is both offered refuge and held captive in the Hippodrome, a ghetto house where a troupe of blacks stage sexual theater for white audiences. The murderer becomes a victim, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804006253
• ISBN13: 9780804006255
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Swallow Press
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.