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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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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…
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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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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…
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…
A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK * A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view * From…
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.
A baffling triptych of murder mysteries by the author of The Trees and James.
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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"It's hard . . . to imagine a novelist today with fresher eyes than Percival Everett."_x2015_Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune
On a windswept landscape somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawks, a…
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One of the earliest works anchoring Percival Everett's illustrious career, God's Country is by turns funny, shocking, and devastating. The unlikely narrator through this tale of misadventures is one Curt…
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…
A brilliantly postmodern set of short stories from one of America's most inventive living writers.
The sudden death of Not Sidney Poitier's mother orphans him at age eleven. He is left with a name no one understands, an uncanny resemblance to an Oscar-winning actor, and…
Percival Everett's deadpan humor and insightful commentary about the artistic life culminate in a gorgeous novel.
Finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow area - the geological history of a cave forty-four metres…
A madcap spy satire from one of America's most prodigiously talented novelists.
The Booker Prize-shortlisted satire of revenge and racial justice in America.
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.
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…
The first collection of essays to examine the breadth of Everett’s creative output
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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
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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 brilliant novel that explores the alarming consequences of hatred with extraordinary grace, humour and originality.
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…
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…
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…
An irresistible comic novel from master storyteller Everett, who pens an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in America.
A new high point for a master novelist, Percival Everett presents an emotionally charged reckoning with art, marriage, and 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…
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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 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…
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…
