Volume 29, Number 13 · August 12, 1982
Good Men Are Hard to Find
By Robert Towers
The Terrible Twos
by Ishmael Reed
St. Martin's Press/Marek, 178 pp., $11.95
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 244 pp., $11.95
The fact that I have yoked new novels by Ishmael Reed and Alice Walker together in the same review should not mislead the reader into regarding them as somehow 'representative' of contemporary black fiction or as jointly making some big statement about the black experience in America. The two books have about as much in common (if I may switch the medium) as one of Roy Lichtenstein's comic-strip blowups and a WPA painting of cotton pickers in the field.
Review, 2973 words
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