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Damned If I Do Percival Everett

Damned If I Do By Percival Everett

Damned If I Do by Percival Everett


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Summary

A brilliantly postmodern set of short stories from one of America's most inventive living writers.

Damned If I Do Summary

Damned If I Do by Percival Everett

Damned If I Do is a set of brilliantly postmodern short stories from Percival Everett, author of The Trees, Dr No and Erasure, now an Oscar-nominated film.

An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen and even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man ends up in a high-speed chase with the cops after stealing the car that blocks the garbage bin at his apartment building. A stranger gets a job at a sandwich shop and fixes everything in sight: a manual mustard dispenser, a mouthful of crooked teeth, thirty-two parking tickets and a sexual identity problem.

Everett skewers race, class, identity, surrealism and much more in this masterful short story collection from one of America's most inventive living writers.

Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.

Damned If I Do Reviews

Rooted in a profound sense of rural place, [the stories in Damned If I Do] are original and subtle, canny and soulful full, too, of sublimely sardonic humour. As for its characters, theyre so multidimensional that their ethnicity is but one item on a long list of expectation-dashing attributes. * Guardian *
It's hard to pigeonhole Percival Everett. Working between the traditions of the academy and the African American tall tale, he writes with a sharp satirical voice * Playboy *
I think Percival Everett is a genius. He's a brilliant writer and so damn smart I envy him. -- Terry McMillan
Clever and thought-provoking, this is a memorable collection * Publishers Weekly *

About Percival Everett

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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NGR9781035036431
9781035036431
1035036436
Damned If I Do by Percival Everett
New
Paperback
Pan Macmillan
2024-03-21
192
N/A
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