Percival Everett is a prolific and innovative American storyteller whose expansive body of work traverses a diverse range of genres and themes. He often crafts narratives that are thrillingly adventurous, thought-provoking, and experimentally daring. Everett's distinctive voice, marked by bold experimentation and sharp wit, has earned him acclaim as one of the most significant literary forces in contemporary American fiction.
From the Booker-shortlisted author of &i;>The Trees &/i>comes a heartbreaking and powerful retelling of Mark Twain?s &i;>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn &/i>from the perspective of Huck?s friend, the enslaved Jim.
A detached Vietnam veteran's wanderings in the West in search of a homecoming
Percival Everett's deadpan humor and insightful commentary about the artistic life culminate in a gorgeous novel.
This novel by Percival Everett explores the consequences of hatred, ignorance and division against the background of the wide, high desert of Wyoming.
Hailed by the New York Times as "both a treatise and a romp," a bold and brilliant novel of a man coming to terms with himself. Now in paperback, this provocative tale within a tale details the life of avant-garde novelist and college professor Thelonious "Monk" Ellison. Monk, frustrated with his dismal book sales, composes a fierce parody of exploitative ghetto literature entitled My Pafology, which is greeted by critics as the work of a great new voice and garners him the success that he covets. Monk's impending struggle with his moral principles emerges as a revolutionary and riotous indictment of race and publishing in America.
A brilliantly postmodern set of short stories from one of America's most inventive living writers.
The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till, a young black boy lynched in the same town 65 years before. The detectives suspect that these are killings of retribution, but soon discover that similar murders are taking place all over the country. In this bold, provocative book, Everett takes direct aim at racism and police violence, and does so in a fast-paced style that ensures the reader can't look away.
A collection of short stories centered around the West includes tales of a deaf Native American girl wandering in the desert and a young boy coping with the death of his sister by angling for trout in the creek where she drowned.
Percival Everett’s The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, VA, 1843, Annotated From the Library of John C. Calhoun , is poetry within the harsh confines of a mock historical document―a guidebook for the American slave owner. The collection features lists of instructions for buying, training, and punishing, equations for calculating present and future profits, and handwritten annotations affirming the brutal contents. The Book of Training lays bare the mechanics of the peculiar institution of slavery and challenges readers to place themselves in the uncomfortable vantage point of those who have bought and enslaved human beings.