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Ishmael Reed

Ishmael Reed

·4.01·24,243 Ratings
“ You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. ” ― Wayne Gretzky
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  • Flight to Canada

    1998·
    ·3.66·793 Ratings
    Ishmael Reed has created a sharp, wildly funny slave's-eye view of the Civil War. Three slaves infected with Dysaethesia Aethipica (a term coined in the nineteenth century for the disease that makes Negroes run away) escape from Virginia. Not satisfied wi
  • Terrible Twos

    1999·
    ·3.57·172 Ratings
    "The Terrible Twos" is a wickedly funny, sharp-edged fictional assault on all those sulky, spoiled naysayers needing instant gratification--Americans. Ishmael Reed's sixth novel depicts a zany, bizarre, and all-too believable future where mankind's fate d
  • Blues City: A Walk in Oakland

    2003·
    ·3.44·125 Ratings
    Oakland is a blues city, brawling and husky . . .Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its twinkling sister city across the Bay, Oakland is itself an American wonder. The city is surrounded by and filled with natural beauty—mountains and hills and lakes
  • Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down

    2000·
    ·3.82·456 Ratings
    "Folks. This here is the story of the Loop Garoo Kid. A cowboy so bad he made a working posse of spells phone in sick. A bullwhacker so unfeeling he left the print of winged mice on hides of crawling women. A desperado so onery he made the Pope cry and th
  • The Last Days of Louisiana Red

    2000·
    ·3.67·163 Ratings
    When Papa LaBas (private eye, noonday HooDoo, and hero of Reed's Mumbo Jumbo) comes to Berkeley, California, to investigate the mysterious death of Ed Yellings, owner of the Solid Gumbo Works, he finds himself fighting the rising tide of violence propagat
  • The Free-Lance Pallbearers

    1999·
    ·3.7·221 Ratings
    "For all the talk of the black aesthetic, few black novelists have broken sharply with the traditional devices of the realistic novel. One writer who departs from such conventions, however, is Ishmael Reed. . . . The Free-Lance Pallbearers uses an expl
  • From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across America

    2002·
    ·3.99·137 Ratings
    Celebrated novelist, poet, and MacArthur fellow Ishmael Reed pushes the boundaries once again in the publication of From Totems to Hip Hop—a truly all-inclusive multicultural anthology—a literary event which will finally even the playing field. This i
  • Mumbo Jumbo

    1996·
    ·3.81·2,510 Ratings
    The Classic Freewheeling Look at Race Relations Through the Ages Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed's brilliantly satiric deconstruction of Western civilization, a racy and uproarious commentary on our society. In it, Reed, one of our preeminent African-American
  • Up from Slavery

    2000·
    ·4.09·17,366 Ratings
    Booker T. Washington, the most recognized national leader, orator and educator, emerged from slavery in the deep south, to work for the betterment of African Americans in the post Reconstruction period. "Up From Slavery" is an autobiography of Booker T. W
  • Reckless Eyeballing

    2000·
    ·3.64·148 Ratings
    Masochism is out and feminism is in, Jews are out and Germans are in, race is out and gender is in, and everyone's fighting (and rewriting) for a piece of the pie. Jewish director Jim Minsk disappears during a trip to the South. Black playwright Ian Ball
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