Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room

"e;Everything I have to say about race and religion and politics is in the novels,"e; declares Barry Gifford. The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room gathers generous portions of all thirteen novels and novellas, as well as first-person essays, generous helpings of poetry, journalism, and a new interview with the author. The broad contours of an episodic output emerge—a full-length view of the freaks and freakish incidents that populate Gifford’s unique human comedy. A world, as Lula, the author’s favorite of all his characters, reflects, "e;wild at heart and weird on top."e;The Rooster Trapped in the Reptile Room provides essential reading for anyone after the soul of American writing.