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Percival Everett
Dr. No is a caper with teeth, a wildly mischievous novel from one of America's most inventive, provocative and productive writers.
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From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees
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Introduced by Brandon Taylor - Booker-shortlisted author of Real Life - Erasure is an unforgettable, satirical but tender novel about race and cultural expectations in contemporary America.
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An arresting story of parental love, loss and grief from one of America's finest writers.
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Percival Everett, Madison Smartt Bell
"The unlikely narrator through this tale of misadventures is one Curt Marder: gambler, drinker, cheat, and would-be womanizer. It's 1871, and he's lost his farm, his wife, and his dog…
Provocative, fast-paced and morbidly funny, The Trees is an urgent novel of lasting importance, from an author with a finger on America’ s pulse.
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Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction
A man visits his ageing father in a nursing home, where his father…
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view * From the…
A brilliantly postmodern set of short stories from one of America's most inventive living writers.
"While holidaying in Colorado, a black engineer is drawn into a conflict between FBI agents and Indian environmentalists over toxic dumping. For Robert Hawks history is repeating itself, as a…
A baffling triptych of murder mysteries by the author of The Trees and James.
Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow area - the geological history of a cave forty-four meters above the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon…
A brilliant satire of mistaken identity, race and class in America.
"... a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view."--Provided by publisher.
A new high point for a master novelist, Percival Everett presents an emotionally charged reckoning with art, marriage, and the past.
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From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Trees comes a heartbreaking and powerful retelling of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Huck's friend, the enslaved Jim.
Percival Everett's deadpan humor and insightful commentary about the artistic life culminate in a gorgeous novel.
I am Not Sidney Poitier is a hilarious and irresistible take on race, class and identity. Published for the first time in the UK, this novel ranks as one of…
The first collection of essays to examine the breadth of Everett’s creative output
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Percival Everett (b. 1956) writes novels, short stories, poetry, and essays, and is one of the most prolific, acclaimed, yet under-examined African American writers working today. In this volume, scholars…
The author of more than twenty-five books, Percival Everett has established himself as one of America’s - and arguably the world’s - premier twenty-first-century fiction writers. Interviews collected in this…
Interviews with the author of erasure, God’s Country, and I Am Not Sidney Poitier
A story inside a story inside a story. A man visits his aging father in a nursing home, where his father writes the novel he imagines his son would write…
A man is decapitated in a car accident, then astonishingly comes back to life in this experimental, satirical, bizarre, and oddly funny novel, which lampoons the press, religion, academia, and…
Dr. No is a caper with teeth, a spy novel, a satirical swipe at race and power in the USA, and a wildly mischievous novel from one of America's most…
Everett’s stories in Damned If I Do ingeniously address issues of race and prejudice by simultaneously satirising and celebrating the human condition. An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly-fisherman…
Praise for Percival Everett: … Artful and literate, Everett explores the philosophical, the metaphysical, the physical and the psychological boundaries of human life … –Terry D'Auray … Everett achieves a…
In Trout’s Lie, Percival Everett explores the semantic relationship between sense and so-called nonsense–and questions whether either is actually possible.
First published in 1985, Walk Me to the Distance was Percival Everett’s second novel, a hauntingly dark tragicomedy of the modern West, still clinging to a mythical heritage and code…
A brilliant novel that explores the alarming consequences of hatred with extraordinary grace, humour and originality.
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An irresistible comic novel from master storyteller Everett, who pens an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in America.
For the plainspoken men and women of these stories, small events trigger sudden shifts in which the ordinary becomes unfamiliar. Cowboys cavort and sheriffs shoot, certainly, but don’t let the…
The Booker Prize-shortlisted satire of revenge and racial justice in America.
The author of Erasure offers a fascinating collection of new short stories featuring a policeman, a cowboy, a romance novelist, and several fly fisherman as protagonists in a series of…
Horse trainer John and his uncle live in a small town in the high desert of Wyoming. The brutal murder of a young gay man pushes the community to the…
A hilarious, ground-breaking and insightful novel, Glyph successfully blends the feverish plot of a thriller with the philosophical depth of Barthes. Narrated by a baby genius Ralph; a baby with…
A madcap spy satire from one of America's most talented novelists.
Slave masters were people, too. From recent texts and films we have learned that slavery was a bad thing. Colonel Hap Thompson was simply a man about his business. His…
After a series of brutal murders in a rural Mississippi town, investigators arrive and discover a large number of similar cases that all have roots in the past.
A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star keeps rising
The protagonist of Percival Everett’s puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of…
Derek C. Maus
Percival Everett, a distinguished professor of English at the University of Southern California, is the author of more than thirty books on a variety of subjects and genres. Derek Maus…
Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman’s murderer. But at the crime scene, his are the only footprints leading…
Argues that the writing of Percival Everett compels readers to retrain their thinking habits and to value uncertainty. Stewart maintains that Everett’s fiction challenges its interpreters to question their assumptions…
A stunning, literary mystery involving a reluctant detective, the FBI, and a reservation’s claim to its land. Robert Hawks, a dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself caught in the middle of…
A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star keeps rising The protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of…
