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, Linda. The painting is a canvas of twelve feet by twenty-one feet and three inches, covered entirely in shades...
This novel follows the life of a young man named Not Sidney Poitier, after he was orphaned at age eleven and inherited a staggering number of shares in the Turner Broadcasting Corporation. This is an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in 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. Erasure is about a writer dealing with growing old,...
Author of the instant national bestsellers, James and Erasure -the inspiration for the Oscar-winning film American Fiction Percival Everett is diving back into poetry with his spellbinding new collection, Sonnets for a Missing Key .
The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he flees to nearby Jackson's Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck...
"Huckleberry Finn" wird zum Roman der Freiheit - in "James" erfindet Percival Everett den Klassiker der amerikanischen Literatur neu. Fesselnd, komisch, subversiv
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 as a peaceful fishing interlude ends in murder...
Percival Everett's The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the...
For the first eighteen years of his career, Percival Everett (b. 1956) managed to fly under the radar of the literary establishment. He followed his artistic vision down a variety of unconventional paths, including his preference for releasing his books...
In Troutâs Lie , Percival Everett explores the semantic relationship between sense and so-called nonsense-and questions whether either is actually possible.
For the first 18 years of his career, Percival Everett (b. 1956) managed to fly under the radar of the literary establishment as he followed his artistic vision down a variety of unconventional paths, including his preference for releasing his books throu...
"Thelonius "Monk" Ellison is an erudite, accomplished but seldom-read author who insists on writing obscure literary papers rather than the so-called "ghetto prose" that would make him a commercial success. He finally succumbs...
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. These poems...
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 America