I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett

I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett

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I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett

Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man in an absurd country. The sudden death of his mother orphans him at age eleven, leaving him with an unfortunate name, an uncanny resemblance to the famous actor and, perhaps more fortunate, a staggering number of shares in the Turner Broadcasting Corporation. Percival Everett's hilarious new novel follows Not Sidney's tumultuous life, as the social hierarchy scrambles to balance his skin color with his fabulous wealth.
Everett, Percival: - Percival Everett is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and the author of nearly thirty books, including Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, Assumption, Erasure, I am Not Sidney Poitier, and Glyph. He is the recipient of the Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the Believer Book Award, the 2006 PEN USA Center Award for Fiction, and the 2015 Guggenheim fellowship for fiction. He has fly fished in the West for over thirty years. He lives in Los Angeles.
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ISBN 13 9781555975272
ISBN 10 1555975275
Title I Am Not Sidney Poitier
Author Percival Everett
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Graywolf Press,U.S.
Year published 2009-05-26
Number of pages 234
Prizes Winner of Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award (Fiction) 2010
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.