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(0)Percival Everett
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Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize
Winner of the 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
Finalist for the 2022 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
Finalist for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award
Longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
An uncanny literary thriller addressing the painful legacy of lynching in the US, by the author of Telephone
Percival Everett's The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a
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"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...
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Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and publishing, now adapted for the screen as the Academy Award-winning AMERICAN FICTION, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright
Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines of
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"Zach Wells, a laconic geolist-slash-paleobiologist, has the trappings of a comfortable life, yet is not contented. He's expert in the geological history of a cave in the Grand Canyon, but less so where his wife and daughter are concerned. And when his daughter develops unusual vision problems and has a seizure, the world of this family of three crumbles. Powerless in the face of his daughter's slow deterioration, Wells finds a note asking for help...
6) Los árboles
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¿Es posible reírse al tiempo que se toma conciencia de estar leyendo una historia absolutamente oscura y aterradora? Percival Everett lo consigue con Los árboles. En esta novela, finalista del Booker Prize 2022 y aclamada por la crítica, el escritor resucita a las víctimas de los linchamientos racistas en Estados Unidos a lo largo del tiempo y demuestra que el veneno del odio, lejos de haber desaparecido, está en auge. Novela policiaca, comedia...
7) Cancelado
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American Ficcion ( Cancelado ) Oscar 2024 al mejor guión adaptado.
Thelonious "Monk" Ellison es un escritor en crisis, aclamado por la crítica y rechazado por diecisiete editoriales que creen que no hay lectores para sus libros. Además, está pasando por un momento familiar muy difícil. Su madre está enferma de Alzheimer y tiene que enfrentarse al suicidio de su padre, ocurrido siete años atrás. Necesita dinero y, arrebatado por la ira y la...
8) Doctor No
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El protagonista de la novela es un brillante profesor de matemáticas experto en nada que no hace nada. Eso lo convierte en el socio perfecto de un aspirante a villano Bond que quiere entrar en Fort Knox para robar, no los lingotes de oro, sino una caja de zapatos que no contiene nada.
A través de la voz de este profesor asperger, Percival Everett vuelve a utilizar el absurdo para hacer una brillante crítica a los valores de la sociedad actual.
Cualquier...
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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...
12) Erschütterung
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Ein Mann, dessen Welt plötzlich zusammenbricht
Der Paläontologe Zach Wells hat sich in seiner selbstironischen Abgeklärtheit bequem eingerichtet: Idealen misstraut er - ob an der Universität, wo er, selbst Afroamerikaner, sich nicht für Gleichberechtigung einsetzt, oder zu Hause in der erkalteten Beziehung zu seiner Frau. Einziges Licht in seinem Leben ist die zwölfjährige schachspielende Tochter Sarah. Als diese ihr Sehvermögen verliert und...
13) Dr. No: A Novel
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A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star keeps rising
The protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means "nothing" in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for "nothing.") He is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of study is nothing, and he does nothing about it. This makes...
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I Am Not Sidney Poitier is an irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett
I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales. I was Not Sidney Poitier.
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...
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Graywolf Press
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C2017.
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English
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"Kevin Pace's latest painting, like so much of his past, remains a secret. Ten years ago, he had an affair with a young watercolorist in Paris. And in the late 1970s, he traveled to El Salvador to search for his best friend's brother, a minor drug dealer gone missing in a country on the verge of war. When the past begins to resurface, Kevin struggles to justify the sacrifices he's made for his art and the secrets he's kept from his wife and family"...
16) American fiction
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Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
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[2024]
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English
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Monk is a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment that profits from Black entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, he uses a pen name to write an outlandish Black book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.