The Terrible Threes - Softcover

Reed, Ishmael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0689121164 ISBN 13: 9780689121166

Publisher: Atheneum, 1991

Synopsis

Depicts a futuristic America where a lame-duck president leaves office and the White House devises a plan to get rid of surplus citizens

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"With offbeat humor and on-target social criticism, Ishmael Reed presents in The Terrible Threes a vision of America in the not-too-distant future, a portrait of a fairy tale gone awry. Opening on Thanksgiving Day in the late 1990s - three years after the former fashion-model president was laughed out of office for admitting that Saint Nicholas knew more about the workings of the executive branch than he did - the White House is implicated in a plot to rid America of its surplus people and the Third World of its nuclear weapons."--BOOK JACKET.

About the Author:

Ishmael Reed is the author of over twenty-five books—including Mumbo Jumbo, The Last Days of Louisiana Red, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down and Juice!. He is also a publisher, television producer, songwriter, radio and television commentator, lecturer, and has long been devoted to exploring an alternative black aesthetic: the trickster tradition, or “Neo-Hoodooism” as he calls it. Founder of the Before Columbus Foundation, he taught at the University of California, Berkeley for over thirty years, retiring in 2005. In 2003, he received the coveted Otto Award for political theater.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atheneum
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0689121164
• ISBN 13: 9780689121166
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180