{"product_id":"terrible-fours","title":"Terrible Fours","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eTerrible Fours\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eIshmael Reed\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781771862431\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBaraka Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2021\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eNone\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eWhen Ishmael Reed wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Terrible Twos \u003c\/i\u003eabout the American infantile need for instant gratification, he could not have realized that in June 2020, journalist Nicole Wallace would be referring to a president as a \"toddler.\" Reed had parodied other genres, the gothic novel, the detective novel, the western, and the neo-slave narrative, a term that he coined in 1984, and which began a big academic payroll as it was included in syllabi nation-wide. From his first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Free-Lance Pallbearers\u003c\/i\u003e, Afro-Futurist before the critical term existed, Ishmael Reed has reshaped traditional forms and extended them. As a Jazz pianist, who has performed in clubs and even in a palace in Italy, he compares it to taking cliché chords and re-harmonizing them. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Terrible Fours \u003c\/i\u003efollows \u003ci\u003eThe Terrible Twos \u003c\/i\u003e(1982) and \u003ci\u003eThe Terrible Threes \u003c\/i\u003e(1989). It is part science fiction, part Washington Novel (Think Drew Pearson's novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Senator\u003c\/i\u003e, films \u003ci\u003eSeven Days In May\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Manchurian Candidate\u003c\/i\u003e) and part Christmas Novel. Some characters have been dropped and some of the principals are back. St. Nicholas is here, but his sidekick Black Peter is missing. Dean Clift, the president who was removed from office, still resides in a Maryland sanatorium. Televangelist Clement Jones still runs the White House. \"The Rapture\" that Jones and the figurehead president Jesse Hatch promised hasn't arrived. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The citizens of the planet Dido await an invasion from earth and their planet, an alien in the body of a deceased television producer, works inside the government and attempts to disrupt the invasion. Termite Control, a follower of Odin and a necrophiliac who was dismissed as a political threat in \u003ci\u003eThe Terrible Threes\u003c\/i\u003e, is gaining in the polls, and more and more and more. Reviewing \u003ci\u003eThe Terrible Twos\u003c\/i\u003e, the late John Leonard wrote in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e: \"Mr. Reed is as close as we are likely to get to a Garcia Marquez, elaboratin\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Baraka Books","offers":[{"title":"Terrible Fours | Ishmael Reed | Quality | 9781771862431 | New | Fiction 1286447","offer_id":50550551052546,"sku":"1286447","price":42.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/41jl1tTZ6AS.jpg?v=1790468964","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/terrible-fours","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}