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So much blue : a novel
\"Kevin Pace is working on a painting that he won't allow anyone to see: not his children; not his best friend, Richard; not even his wife, Linda. The painting is a canvas of twelve feet by twenty-one feet (and three inches) that is covered entirely in shades of blue. It may be his masterpiece or it may not; he doesn't know or, more accurately, doesn't care. What Kevin does care about are the events of the past. Ten years a go he had an affair with a young watercolorist in Paris. Kevin relates this event with a dispassionate air, even a bit of puzzlement. It's not clear to him why he had the affair, but he can't let it go. In the more distant past of the late seventies, Kevin and Richard traveled to El Salvador on the verge of war to retrieve Richard's drug-dealing brother, who had gone missing without explanation. As the events of the past intersect with the present, Kevin struggles to justify the sacrifices he's made for his art and the secrets he's kept from his wife.\"--Publisher's description.
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Conversations with Percival Everett
For the first eighteen years of his career, Percival Everett (b.
1956) managed to fly under the radar of the literary establishment.
He followed his artistic vision down a variety of unconventional
paths, including his preference for releasing his books through
independent publishers. But with the publication of his novel
erasure in 2001, his literary talent could no longer be
kept under wraps. The author of more than twenty-five books,
Everett has established himself as one of America's-and arguably
the world's-premier twenty-first-century fiction writers. Among his
many honors since 2000 are Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards for
erasure and I Am Not Sidney Poitier (2009) and
three prominent awards for his 2005 novel Wounded -the PEN
Center USA Literary Award for Fiction, France's Prix Lucioles des
Libraires, and Italy's Premio Vallombrosa Gregor von Rezzori Prize.
Interviews collected in this volume-several of which appear in
print or in English translation for the first time-display
Everett's abundant wit as well as the independence of thought that
has led to his work being described as \"characteristically
uncharacteristic.\" At one moment he speaks with great
sophistication about the fact that African American authors are
forced to overcome constraining expectations about their subject
matter that white writers are not. And in the next he talks about
training mules or quips about \"Jim Crow,\" a pet bird Everett had on
his ranch outside Los Angeles. Everett discusses race and gender,
his ecological interests, the real and mythic American West, the
eclectic nature of his work, the craft of writing, language and
linguistic theory, and much more.
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The trees : a novel
After a series of brutal murders in a rural Mississippi town, investigators arrive and discover a large number of similar cases that all have roots in the past.
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Percival Everett by Virgil Russell
A man visits his aging father in a nursing home, where his father writes the novel he imagines his son would write. Or is it the novel that the son imagines his father would imagine, if he were to imagine the kind of novel the son would write?
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James : a novel
\"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. While many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river's banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin...), Jim's agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light. Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a \"cult literary icon\" (Oprah Daily), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature\"-- Provided by publisher.
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