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02830aam a2200421 i 4500 001 41ED97E0F4E911EBA186761358ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210804010022 007 tb 008 210315s2021 nyu d 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0063090686 020 $a 9780063090682 035 $a (OCoLC)1244277963 040 $a TOH $b eng $c TOH $d ORX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d SRB $d OCLCO $d IOU $d SILO 100 1 $a Killens, John Oliver, $d 1916-1987, $e author. 245 14 $a The minister primarily : $b a novel / $c John Oliver Killens ; foreword by Ishmael Reed. 250 $a Large print edition 264 1 $a New York : $b HarperLuxe ; $c 2021. 300 $a 667 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm 340 $n large print $2 rda 520 $a "A major literary event-the eagerly anticipated publication of a long-lost novel from legendary writer and three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee John Oliver Killens, hailed as the founding father of the Black Arts Movement and mentor to celebrated writers, including Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Arthur Flowers, and Terry McMillan. Wanderlust has taken Jimmy Jay Leander Johnson on numerous adventures, from Mississippi to Washington D.C., Vietnam, London and eventually to Africa, to the fictitious Independent People's Democratic Republic of Guanaya, where the young musician hopes to "find himself." But this small sliver of a country in West Africa, recently freed from British colonial rule, is thrown into turmoil with the discovery of cobanium-a radioactive mineral 500 times more powerful than uranium, making it irresistible for greedy speculators, grifters, and charlatans. Overnight, outsiders descend upon the sleepy capital city looking for "a piece of the action." When a plot to assassinate Guanaya's leader is discovered, Jimmy Jay-a dead ringer for the Prime Minister-is enlisted in a counter scheme to foil the would-be coup. He will travel to America with half of Guanaya's cabinet ministers to meet with President Ronald Reagan and address the UN General Assembly, while the rest of the cabinet will remain in Guanaya with the real Prime Minister. What could go wrong? Everything"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Prime ministers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Musicians, Black $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mistaken identity $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Attempted assassination $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Coups d'eÌtat $v Fiction. 600 10 $a Reagan, Ronald $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Nineteen eighties $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Africa, West $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Washington (D.C.) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Large type books. 655 7 $a Political fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 2 945 $a lpt 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909064948.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210804010151.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=41ED97E0F4E911EBA186761358ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search