Erasure: A Novel by Percival Everett (English) Paperback Book

Description: Erasure by Percival Everett Percival Everetts blistering satire about race and publishing, now adapted for the screen as AMERICAN FICTION, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright and Tracee Ellis Ross Thelonious "Monk" Ellisons 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 the literary establishment as he watches the meteoric success of Wes Lives in Da Ghetto, a first novel by a woman who once visited "some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days." Meanwhile, Monk struggles with real family tragedies--his aged mother is fast succumbing to Alzheimers, and he still grapples with the reverberations of his fathers suicide seven years before. In his rage and despair, Monk dashes off a novel meant to be an indictment of Juanita Mae Jenkinss bestseller. He doesnt intend for My Pafology to be published, let alone taken seriously, but it is--under the pseudonym Stagg R. Leigh--and soon it becomes the Next Big Thing. How Monk deals with the personal and professional fallout galvanizes this audacious, hysterical, and quietly devastating novel. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Percival Everett is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and the author of seventeen novels, including I Am Not Sidney Poitier, The Water Cure, Wounded, and Glyph. Review **A New York Times Book Review "100 Best Books of the 21st Century"****One of The Atlantics "Great American Novels"** "Erasure is as watertight and hilarious a satire as, say, [Evelyn Waughs] Scoop . . . [Everett] is a first-rate word wrangler." --Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian "With equal measures of sympathy and satire, [Erasure] craftily addresses the highly charged issue of being black enough in America." --Jenifer Berman, The New York Times Book Review "An over-the-top masterpiece. . . . Percivals talent is multifaceted, sparked by a satiric brilliance that could place him alongside Wright and Ellison as he skewers the conventions of racial and political correctness." --Publishers Weekly "A scathingly funny look at racism and the book business: editors, publishers, readers, and writers alike." --Booklist "More genuine and tender than much of Everetts previous work, but no less impressive intellectually: a high point in an already substantial literary career." --Kirkus Reviews "The sharp satire on American publishers and American readers that Everett puts forward is delicious, though it wont win him many friends among the sentimental educated class who want to read something serious about black inner-city life without disturbing any of their stereotypes." --Chicago Tribune "Few works dismantle liberal pieties about racial politics as deftly and thoroughly as Everetts Erasure. . . . The aesthetically layered masterpiece offers a scathing critique of American racism even as it dramatizes, through Monks extended reflections on the purpose of art, the absurdity of the idea that Black artists must always write about race." --Meghan ORourke, The Atlantics "Great American Novels" Review Quote With equal measures of sympathy and satire, [ Erasure ] craftily addresses the highly charged issue of being black enough in America. Details ISBN1555975992 Author Percival Everett Short Title ERASURE Publisher Graywolf Press Language English ISBN-10 1555975992 ISBN-13 9781555975999 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Residence Los Angeles, CA, US Year 2011 Publication Date 2011-10-25 Subtitle A Novel Imprint Graywolf Press Pages 272 Audience General UK Release Date 2011-10-25 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:43684041;

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