Percival Everett
Damned If I Do
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'Original and subtle, canny and soulful - full, too, of sublimely sardonic humour'- The GuardianAn 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 exceptional work.Publi…
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'Original and subtle, canny and soulful - full, too, of sublimely sardonic humour'- The GuardianAn 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 exceptional work.Published for the first time in the UK, Damned If I Do is a masterful short story collection from a genius of American storytelling. The book is introduced by critically acclaimed British author, Irenosen Okojie.'Everett displays an intellectual dexterity and formal versatility that few contemporary American writers can match.'- Chicago Tribune
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-910312-60-5
- EAN: 9781910312605
- Produktnummer: 35954085
- Verlag: Influx Press Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
Percival Everett is the author of nearly thirty books, including I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, Erasure, and Glyph. He has received the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction. He lives in Los Angeles.
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