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American Desert by Percival Everett
Category: Fiction
As American Desert opens, the novel's hero, Theodore Street, is driving towards the ocean, where he plans to walk into the waves and drown himself. But on his way, he is hit headlong by an oncoming van. He sails through the windshield, his head is sliced cleanly from his body, his suicidal plans unwitti ...Show more
Assumption by Percival Everett
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman's murderer. But at the crime scene, his are the only footprints leading up to and away from her door. Something is amiss, and even his mother knows it. As other cases pile up, Ogden gives chase, pursuing flimsy lead ...Show more
Damned If I Do by Percival Everett
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
An 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 san ...Show more
Dr. No by Percival Everett
Category: Fiction
Wala Kitu 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 him the perfect partner for the aspiring villain John Sill, who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal, well, not gold bars but a shoebox containing nothing. W ...Show more
Dr. No - A Novel by Percival Everett
Category: Fiction
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 "n ...Show more
Erasure (Adapted for the screen as American Fiction) by Percival Everett
Category: Fiction
Introduced by Brandon Taylor - Booker-shortlisted author of Real Life - Erasure is an unforgettable, satirical but tender novel about race and cultural expectations in contemporary America. 'Truly brilliant.' Los Angeles Review of Books 'A classic.' The Times 'A remarkable novel.' Wall Street Journal Wi ...Show more
God's Country by Percival Everett
Category: Fiction
One of the earliest works anchoring Percival Everett's illustrious career, God's Country is by turns funny, shocking, and devastating. The unlikely narrator through this tale of misadventures is one Curt Marder- gambler, drinker, cheat, and would-be womanizer. Unfortunately, he's a coward. When he sees ...Show more
I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
Category: Fiction
I Am Not Sidney Poitier is an irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in AmericaI 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 o ...Show more
I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
Category: General Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
'A scandalously under-recognised contemporary master' - The Wall Street Journal I am Not Sidney Poitier is a hilarious and irresistible take on race, class and identity. The sudden death of Not Sidney Poitier's mother orphans him at age eleven. He is left with a name no one understands, an uncanny resem ...Show more