Este autor, originario del Medio Oeste, alcanzó la notoriedad con su sensacional novela "Mandingo", una obra que, aunque despreciada por la crítica, se convirtió en un bestseller nacional. Sus libros posteriores, a menudo coescritos o continuados por otros, profundizan en temas oscuros y relaciones intensas con un estilo audaz y explícito. A pesar de la inmensa popularidad y las ventas de la serie Falconhurst, su obra permanece en los márgenes del reconocimiento literario. Su escritura es conocida por su cruda representación de temas tabú y su narrativa visceral.
Mandingo is a novel written in 1957 by Kyle Onstott. The book is set in the 1830s in the antebellum South primarily around Falconhurst, a fictional plantation in Alabama owned by the planter Warren Maxwell. The narrative centers on Maxwell, his son Hammond, and the Mandingo (or Mandinka) slave Ganymede, or Mede. It is a tale of cruelty toward the blacks of that time, containing vicious fights, poisoning, and violent
Like Mandingo and Drum, Master of Falconhurst shatters the genteel image of the Old South and lays bare the savage truth about slavery and slave-breeding...about plantations like Falconhurst where the cash crop was black flesh, where human beings were stripped bare in the marketplace and sold like cattle.In this great new bestseller, Kyle Onstott unfolds the turbulent drama of Falconhurst caught up in the violence of the Civil War. It also is the story of Drummage, the virile and handsome slave who rose to become not only ruler of Falconhurst, but master of the selfish, sensual woman who owned it.