This adventure into the world of offbeat humor and on-target social
criticism is a vision of America in the not-too-distant future, a
portrait of a fairy-tale gone awry.
In The Terrible Threes, Ishmael Reed proves that he is one of the most
innovative voices in contemporary literature. This adventure into the
world of offbeat humor and on-target social criticism is a vision of
America in the not-too-distant future, a portrait of a fairy-tale gone
awry.
This novel begins where The Terrible Twos left off, in the late 1990s,
three years after President and former fashion model Dean Clift was
laughed out of office, with the nation in chaos and the White House
implicated in a covert operation to rid America of surplus people and
the Third World of its nuclear weapons. A blend of science fiction,
folklore, history, fantasy, social satire, and all out surrealist
comedy, The Terrible Threes bears Reed's distinctive voice and
message. At once a threat, a promise, a prediction, and the awful truth
about the land of the free and the home of the brave, the tale is wholly
unforgettable. Once you've seen the world through Reed's eyes, you might
never see it the same way again.
