I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett

I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett

A brilliant satire of mistaken identity, race and class in America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of James.

A hilarious and heart-breaking story of class and race * The White Review *
The most sidesplitting dialogue this side of Catch-22. . Not only is the novel smart and without a trace of pretentiousness, it shows Everett as a novelist at the height of his narrative and satirical powers * Publishers Weekly *
[A] hilarious strut through the badlands of race and class * NPR *
Percival Everett adds another unique and entertaining new novel to his collection of fiction with I Am Not Sidney Poitier. Readers can expect the tongue-in-cheek writing style and off-the-wall energy characteristic of Everett . . . Everett succeeds in presenting a comical yet thought-provoking novel that questions the line separating reality from fiction * Callaloo *

Percival Everett is the author of over thirty published works, including Zulus, Erasure, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Assumption, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, Telephone, The Trees, Dr. No and James. A Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Everett has won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, the Academy Award in Literature, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, and the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Fiction. In 2022, The Trees was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His novel Erasure has been adapted into the major film American Fiction, which was nominated for five Academy Awards.

Everett lives in Los Angeles, CA, where he is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

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ISBN 13	9781035036493
ISBN 10	1035036495
Titel	I Am Not Sidney Poitier
Autor	Percival Everett
Serie	Picador Collection
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Pan Macmillan
Erscheinungsjahr	2024-03-21
Seitenanzahl	288
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