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Book SynopsisPercival 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.
The Trees and James were both shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Erasure was adapted into the Oscar-nominated movie, American Fiction.
Everett lives in Los Angeles, CA, where he is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.
Trade ReviewThere’s nobody else quite like him, with his mash of ideas, chaos, satire and frivolity. * The Financial Times *
A great deal of fun, and Everett gets a lot of comic mileage out of his narrator’s affectless reactions to the increasingly absurd situations he finds himself in . . . Everett is always up to something interesting. * The Guardian *
Clever, funny and mercilessly satirical. * The Times *
