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Erasure
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Erasure

Percival Everett
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Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction.

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.

With your book sales at an all-time low, your family falling apart, and your agent telling you you're not black enough, what's an author to do?

Thelonius 'Monk' Ellison has the answer.

Or does he . . . ?

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Country
United Kingdom
Date
5 August 2021
Pages
320
ISBN
9780571370894

Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction.

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.

With your book sales at an all-time low, your family falling apart, and your agent telling you you're not black enough, what's an author to do?

Thelonius 'Monk' Ellison has the answer.

Or does he . . . ?

Read More
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Country
United Kingdom
Date
5 August 2021
Pages
320
ISBN
9780571370894

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