num_pages: 148
description: Ian Ball, a black southern playwright who was "sex-listed" by theater feminists in the 1970s, hopes to redeem himself with Reckless Eyeballing, a play in which women get all the good parts. Supported by powerful director Jim Minsk and preeminent playwright Jack Brashford (who hasn't written in decades, claiming that Jews steal all his black material), Ball seems assured of success this time. But Minsk is murdered by white southerners (still out for vengeance against Leo Frank), and Ball finds himself at the mercy of Tremonisha Smarts, a famous black playwright, and Becky French, a feared feminist producer who would rather put her efforts into a new play by and about Eva Braun. It's men vs. women, blacks vs. Jews, North vs. South, and Ishmael Reed vs. everybody in this tour-de-farce behind the scenes of New York theater.
language: English
title: Reckless Eyeballing
titlecomplete: Reckless Eyeballing
genres: Fiction, American, African American Literature, Humor, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Race, African American
ratings_count: 189
publisher: St Martins Pr