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Author:Percival Everett
A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond
Praise for Percival Everett: "If Percival Everett isn't already a household name, it's because people are more interested in politics than truth."--Madison Smartt Bell, author of The Washington Square Ensemble "Everett's talent is multifaceted, sparked by a satiric brilliance that could place him alongside...- $20.95
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Abstraktion Und Einfühlung
"Everett's talent is multifaceted, sparked by a satiric brilliance that could place him alongside Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison."--Publishers Weekly "I think Percival Everett is a genius. . . . He's a brilliant writer and so damn smart I envy him."--Terry McMillan Chris Abani...- $15.95
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Author:Percival Everett
American Desert
Part parable, part fantasy novel, part laugh-out-loud satire, American Desert is the story of Theodore Street, a college professor on the brink of committing suicide. When the decision is taken out of his hands--he's hit by a car and his head is severed from...- $26.00
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Author:Percival Everett
Assumption
A baffling triptych of murder mysteries by the author of I Am Not Sidney PoitierOgden 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...- $16.00
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Damned If I Do: Stories
Damned If I Do is an exceptional new collection of short stories by Percival Everett, author of the highly praised and wickedly funny novel Erasure People are just naturally hopeful, a term my grandfather used to tell me was more than occasionally interchangeable with...- $16.00
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Dr. No
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 mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means "nothing" in Tagalog, and...- $16.00
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Dr. No
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 mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means "nothing" in Tagalog, and...- $36.99
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Erasure
Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and writing, available again in paperback Thelonious Monk Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been critically acclaimed. He seethes...- $16.00
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Glyph
In paperback for the first time, the much-beloved satirical novel The New York Times praised as "both a treatise and a romp"Baby Ralph has ways to pass the time in his crib--but they don't include staring at a mobile. Aided by his mother, he...- $15.00
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Author:Percival Everett
God's Country
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 to a band of marauding hooligans. With nothing to live on but a desire...- $17.00
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Half an Inch of Water: Stories
A new collection of stories set in the West from one of the most gifted and versatile of contemporary writers (NPR)Percival Everett's long-awaited new collection of stories, his first since 2004's Damned If I Do, finds him traversing the West with characteristic restlessness. A...- $16.00
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I Am Not Sidney Poitier
I Am Not Sidney Poitier is an irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in AmericaI was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and...- $16.00
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James
Author: Percival EverettISBN-10: 0385550367ISBN-13: 9780385550369Publisher: Doubleday BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/19/2024Pages: 320Format: HardcoverSize: 8.25h x 5.50w- $28.00
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James
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), Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime When...- $30.00
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Percival Everett by Virgil Russell
Anything we take for granted, Mr. Everett means to show us, may turn out to be a lie. --Wall Street Journal * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * Finalist for the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction * A story inside...- $15.00
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RE: F (Gesture)
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 primal sense of dislocation, forcing us to question...- $18.95
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So Much Blue
A new high point for a master novelist, an emotionally charged reckoning with art, marriage, and the past Kevin Pace is working on a painting that he won't allow anyone to see: not his children; not his best friend, Richard; not even his wife,...- $16.00
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Sonnets for a Missing Key
These sonnets were inspired by the Preludes of Chopin. Do keys matter? Do they speak to different parts of us? Inspired by the Preludes of Chopin and the piano solos of Art Tatum, these experimental sonnets seek to question timbre and tone. That's bullshit....- $16.95
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Swimming Swimmers Swimming
These poems question the sounds that are meaning. They interrogate where meaning resides and whether they are in any way, rigidly or loosely, wed to the words that carry it. There is a nod toward logic and at once an acceptance of its limits....- $15.95
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Author:Percival Everett
Telephone
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN FICTION An astonishing new novel of loss and grief from "one of our culture's preeminent novelists" (Los Angeles Times)Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow area--the geological history of a cave forty-four...- $16.00
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The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, Va, 1843: Annotated from the Library of John C. Calhoun
Percival Everett's The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, VA, 1843, Annotated From the Library of John C. Calhoun, is poetry within the harsh confines of a mock historical document--a guidebook for the American slave owner. The collection features lists of...- $16.95
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The Jefferson Bible
Acclaimed author Percival Everett will take an atheist's-eye-view of the little-known "Jefferson Bible," the third president's response to the King James Bible. Percival Everett's novel Erasure won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and his most recent, A History of the African-American People Proposed] by Strom...- $13.95
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The Trees
Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker PrizeWinner of the 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardFinalist for the 2022 PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardLonglisted for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction An uncanny literary thriller addressing the painful legacy of lynching in the US, by the author of Telephone...- $16.00
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The Trees
An uncanny literary thriller addressing the painful legacy of lynching in the US, by the author of Telephone Percival Everett's The Trees is a must-listen that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of...- $36.99
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Trout's Lie
In Trout's Lie, Percival Everett explores the semantic relationship between sense and so-called nonsense--and questions whether either is actually possible.Author: Percival EverettISBN-10: 1597099988ISBN-13: 9781597099981Publisher: Red Hen PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2015Pages: 72Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20dAbout the AuthorPercival Everett is the author of...- $16.95
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Walk Me to the Distance
Vietnam veteran David Larson can't go home again. Instead the Georgia native wanders westward into the desolate landscape of Slut's Hole, Wyoming, and seeks to integrate himself amid a hardscrabble cast of memorable locals. David is taken in by Sixbury, a one-legged widow, sheep...- $18.99
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Watershed
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 himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American treaty rights. What begins for Robert...- $19.00
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Watershed
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 himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American treaty rights. What begins for Robert...- $17.00
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Wounded
Time Out Chicago, Top 10 Book of 2005Winner of the 2006 PEN USA Literary Award for Fiction New paperback edition available Training horses is dangerous--a head-to-head confrontation with 1,000 pounds of muscle and little sense takes courage, but more important, patience and smarts. It...- $16.00
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