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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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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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The Booker Prize-shortlisted satire of revenge and racial justice in America.
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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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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…
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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…
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A madcap spy satire from one of America's most prodigiously talented novelists.
The Trees opens with a series of brutal murders in the town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of state detectives from arrive they meet resistance from locals and officials…
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 brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. * From the "literary icon" (Oprah Daily)…
A rediscovered classic of politics, murder, espionage, for the first time in paperback
On a windswept landscape somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawks, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds…
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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…
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 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…
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…
With this inventive and humorous novel, Percival Everett has created his unlikeliest hero to date. Mute by choice, baby Ralph is able to ponder the worth (not much) of Derrida…
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…
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A brilliant novel that explores the alarming consequences of hatred with extraordinary grace, humour and originality.
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…
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…
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…
Percival L. Everett
Craig Suder is a struggling black third baseman for the Seattle Mariners. In the midst of a humiliating career slump and difficulties with his demanding wife and troubled son, Suder…
Lesley Larkin
What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison’s words, a race of readers that understands itself to be ‘universal’ or race-free ? How has…
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Nick Brandt
The Day May Break, photographed in Zimbabwe and Kenya in late 2020, is the first part of a global series portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental…
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