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The Terrible Threes

✍ Scribed by Ishmael Reed

Publisher: Columbia University Press;Dalkey Archive Press
Year: 1989;1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 98 KB
Edition: 1st Dalkey Archive ed
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 1564782247

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✦ Synopsis

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,...

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