Author: Ishmael Reed
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Keywords: threes, terrible
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1999-09
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1564782247
ISBN-13: 9781564782243

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 weapo