Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

Reckless Eyeballing
Reckless Eyeballing
Reckless Eyeballing
Ebook186 pages3 hours

Reckless Eyeballing

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

4/5

()

Read preview

About this ebook

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 writes the all-female play Reckless Eyeballing in hopes of getting off the "sex-list." Preeminent playwright Jack Brashford, claiming the Jews stole all his black material, decides to write about Armenians. In the background, an unknown assailant dubbed the "Flower Phantom" runs loose through the city shaving heads of prominent black feminists (to the secret delight of black men).

In this hilarious, devastating, but also deeply sympathetic novel, Ishmael Reed turns characters on the backs, sides, tops and bottoms to expose the multiple hypocrisies at the heart of American culture.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 1, 2000
ISBN9781564787439
Reckless Eyeballing
Author

Ishmael Reed

Ishmael Reed (b. 1938) is an acclaimed multifaceted writer whose work often engages with overlooked aspects of the American experience. He has published ten novels, including Flight to Canada and Mumbo Jumbo, as well as plays and collections of essays and poetry. He was nominated for a National Book Award in both poetry and prose in 1972. Conjure (1972), a volume of poetry, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and his New and Collected Poems: 1964–2006 (2007) received a Gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California. Reed has also received a Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Blues Song Writer of the Year award from the West Coast Blues Hall of Fame, a Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the National Institute for Arts and Letters, and a MacArthur Fellowship. Reed taught at the University of California, Berkeley, for thirty-five years and currently lives in Oakland, California.      

Read more from Ishmael Reed

Related to Reckless Eyeballing

Related ebooks

Literary Fiction For You

View More

Related articles

Reviews for Reckless Eyeballing

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5

1 rating1 review

What did you think?

Tap to rate

Review must be at least 10 words

  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I read this a long time ago. I was impressed with Reed's control of his anger. He has a righteous voice. This novel is based on the killing of a young Afro-American who was supposed to have looked at a white woman back in the day when that would lead to a lynching. I can't remember much beyond that.

Book preview

Reckless Eyeballing - Ishmael Reed

^Nabook_preview_excerpt.htmlu[ے6f"˻BՒGYAU$hR1/a='`[Z]E<~~IbO'Ǔogdv>L3;[dN.:cMqcY >dl937L~wFF||j 5ߚI_1xxcOcÂ~&!f.sƄ,db2)ۡ;: Ou %gȋ$Hfmۄڐa澷qCcp6?D78l;ẁE&FՊbκ\gH5Op2h:?_FVzD7jB}*#?qZteKCwS+hs?؈|AKEm}/oդT?cO,9ug XpC/Otaks;AIN4wQ_a88,)T0ޡ%C-'>D٤fXvlS-}Ew5f,?ڲxJj7Bp8-LJT5# q{kjFOivyuJP>7N_4`WX@Z4GӛN}~gNXρ.k?\ x, OQ9)n퐩 E9gyk4NBLP\ L{1, HCwa8s9tN:<| MD>UE]48GNs[uS9M/I*Aռ3lyi{Ö'dgXypiǀmG,v*|SJ%+jW? _/]Ua(T?Т5/:Q<0DAncwSFDxS-|Ͻ:<#2.iPE j޺ឝ9V X 54\9rNA!+,kva`nsxMujZP`D_y=P hPJu>F\#^چ˂B GݓC@ i#uFs'DlB7۴"anRɏYv2 Ho7sp:~,̳xi /^~s&#Y /9H*,yG,=!pfA=H,BN lΕ3(crd$#O䚹V\Elj%&Y8ݚKΥ9J>o!UٔV{9Ɩ)Us"5)(ap'U.aSȑz xS 3DqOԣXqvu'ٜ;SźxM %^ZO!OQ}Z^7k9kw"EF[ 6fقY.#tK3 a#!>(A23bjbλLZg lB,$Շٖ8׬&E6j&&u'-,QyTF%K38̼g-j}3$` ] ݒKV"q5=y6yhwN} ?"f89v\I< V (PNYe\a(M+1hy,(`t@@I;kD9)rҥ聪RQsNB)BI! KJyPޓHQxcKWN JKMŝ{.$,C:NgiOvp".[R{p>a%i+?OIpe-b:݆H[6|7*$=st$_2s柡5AԸШ:XSj7n,Xݞ %a R}5.\2 'NA]IX/MJ=NDs<E4./޻d$_4Jvv4t0H[E7W;x6җωCa ߢ8/,9AŃspYj+ܩiom_Ìe&\ɄkB WCso^^P=w]6GiȖNfZ#`r]{H[/i3$zz]\WlФAW'V!8em~\0Q3j "]ޜ pP\9$4Fu$ D0'c[vTQ:"zHz5 ` hͬUSz.zO;g=)\|sل3Xv׸\fYrIn_?лBSڰL:@c-ۅ34 I*"hPC޸  ]%Kt2 U/ifG9:2)f0>NmpiaF亵nf陲+1_W",Q<69жd_{xcZb^:@BdIpCq\ѧ>M"V欌Un RD8et lidzXhvx(lt#_X\U x޵7ݛTv 9Z,XFL՞?gwݖ31N\Pe.Ӗ1WGvZ$]2N r: =L^WGkG;:ԮsU~УNvIfnS}&ᚙ\@7Ë}eˬf{}]J #D2@2.kGUgPyjB+Z35-]d3'I7 %d&xf4{<$ZbgaNo3)9IdM1X3DM@BP?.up_seb:G=BHkS s/I^O]HtW,@@O2$ݳZ+,Da4 Zd]&u ~8r\pA8Qz%7 &aoؾ>bWUê+ K$L&>/,]iKLCI i|-v7=?7\kIb< !<8Hu~Gon\:Rj4#`.J,K?axJ H2I[%R=%Ұ<2{' G fmƝ5 pelB ^& xB9ݗ ($Ie:ԐXWF~JT%IeS ySfr\3@n (;1:zy/Y ֢8i䵎KO(d3waz?uC7巗b>}Kœ%QJ7~g%z_b1'mI祛2zcO}9~޹Q l w{cʢ#clsXt()΀#%_:̗pdZzN!BH;\] g?y]G6y=9ԂZ)<ݘn18+"VY; W8'7p,?/7I?(MKEu`187\ ۬;W͔M(b@y!;rev X)WA.hrcEl0X(e[nHYn~WZJ(k3R)xyF*r0<8h]T' lgESwr5UeS,4@;w&OVOfC'Ц20]PJ"g\~ n8(ewnS\ {-HE"Pi%'zC)ڬ{V2d /$9.ܮe輌B -YQOee~ƭXnKShSPst",hPUϰYor!*k壓!;Xd^mU@Kʱu I3}Uu ~o%Xe$J_%do˛-WHQoh*N| ^0ss*$a lpV |jaGȑ<;-~ywY ӱAU*Zα=2⮤>X#08HWpK͕KY!%)C^VR>nKԌ--&H!w:!nw:7syX4i%MԻpɕp@8Fٵ\".uag+8v (hɾ ey9݈X>6'[i-gOtZu@%pl8fTʷ+壥cG)[)LBGΪU^~z$Pr /3/ tY7ǮVJ*껫&sIi7nU +|Ot. twSj1A^b=~HwIֈcA w7,-I°$5wYl {<:>im[{-̈P=G]pT@<7
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1