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“Ishmael Reed…has been called the best black writer in America today. Reed’s mastery of crosscutting techniques and his extravagant inventiveness keep the madness on the boil and help disguise this novel’s essential commitment to savage social criticism…. This is matchless comic invective. Ishmael Reed is a one-of-a-kind writer.”

—Saturday Review

“Reed’s gift is for the outrageous, for giving vivid expression to cultural controversies very much in the air…. He is one of the most underrated writers in America. Certainly no other contemporary black writer has used the language and beliefs of folk culture so imaginatively, and few have been so stinging about the absurdity of American racism.”

—New York Review of Books

“His mind is one of the great creations of this era…. He’s beautiful!”

—Washington Post

“Reed follows modern masters as diverse as James Joyce and Alain Robbe-Grillet.”

—The Nation

“Reed’s muse barks so wildly in The Terrible Twos that it unraveled the silk in my Edmund Wilson pajamas.”

—Tom Robbins

“A great writer.”

—James Baldwin

“The Terrible Twos moves from satire to farce as Reed takes current American politics to ultimate conclusions…. [The author’s] fragmented style permits several simultaneous plots and a hilarious interchange of characters as the plots overlap.”

—Library Journal

“This satirical fantasy by playwright, poet, essayist and novelist Reed is incredibly energetic and imaginative…. The action is madcap, with touches of A Christmas Carol merged with Rastafarian mythology.”

—Publishers Weekly