num_pages: 192
description: "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 depends upon St. Nicholas and a Risto rasta dwarf named Black Peter, who together wreak mischievous havoc on Wall Street and in the Oval Office. This offbeat, on-target social critique makes marvelous fun of everything that is American, from commercialism to Congress, Santa Claus to religions cults.
language: English
title: The Terrible Twos
titlecomplete: The Terrible Twos
characters: Santa Claus
genres: 20th Century, American, Novels, African American, Fiction
ratings_count: 232
publisher: Dalkey Archive Press