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Selected shorts : a celebration of the short story 16Everett, Percival.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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Summary: A professor of mathematics who claims to be an expert at nothing partners with an aspiring villain who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal a shoebox containing nothing, with the help of a brainwashed astrophysicist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2022
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Summary: Thelonius "Monk" Ellison is an erudite, accomplished but seldom-read author who insists on writing obscure literary papers rather than the so-called "ghetto prose" that would make him a commercial success. He finally succumbs to temptation after seeing the Oberlin-educated author of We's Lives in da Ghetto during her appearance on a talk show, firing back with a parody called My Pafology, which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2001
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Summary: Percival Everett's long-awaited new collection of stories, his first since 2004's Damned If I Do, finds him traversing the West with characteristic restlessness. A deaf Native American girl wanders off into the desert and is found untouched in a den of rattlesnakes. A young boy copes with the death of his sister by angling for an unnaturally large trout in the creek where she drowned. An old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2015
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2017
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 0000
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Summary: "Do keys matter? Do they speak to different parts of us? Inspired by the Preludes of Chopin and the piano solos of Art Tatum, these experimental sonnets seek to question timbre and tone. That's bullshit. They are just sonnets"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Hen Press 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 811.6 EVEEverett, Percival L.
Summary: Curt Mader, a rancher whose homestead has been burned and his wife carried off by a bunch of cowboys, hires Bubba, a black tracker, to help him find her. A parody of how the west was won by the author of Zulus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber and Faber 1994
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc 1. Yma dream / Thomas Meehan (10:46)-- Gorilla, my love / Toni Cade Bambara (20:00)-- The fix / Percival Everett (29:22)-- disc 2. The H Street sledding record / Ron Carlson (21:01)-- The third and final continent / Jhumpa Lahiri (51:50)-- disc 3. Valor / Richard Bausch (47:25)-- Enough / Alice McDermott (20:06).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Symphony Space 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SELSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY AME2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD