{"title":"Percival Everett","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"watershed-percival-everett-paperback","title":"Watershed -- Percival Everett, Paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eA classic of politics, murder, and espionage\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWatershed\u003c\/i\u003e has all the makings of a social thriller...In this novel about water and the struggle for a life free of injustice, the mix doesn't just work, it flows.\" -- Alan Cheuse, \u003ci\u003eNational Public Radio\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"It's hard . . . to imagine a novelist today with fresher eyes than Percival Everett.\"―Christopher Borrelli, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On a windswept landscape somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawks, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American treaty rights. What begins for Robert as a peaceful fishing interlude ends in murder and the disclosure of government secrets. Everett mines history for this one, focusing on the relationship between Native American activists and Black Panther groups who bonded over their shared enemies in the 1960s Civil Rights movement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eWatershed \u003c\/i\u003eis an excellent example of Percival Everett's famed bitingly political narrative style.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Percival Everett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Beacon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.95h x 5.35w x 0.71d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807016275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePercival Everett is the author of over 30 books since his debut, \u003ci\u003eSuder\u003c\/i\u003e, was released in 1983. His modern classics include \u003ci\u003eI Am Not Sidney Poitier\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSo Much Blue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGlyph, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTrees\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches at The University of Southern California. Everett was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020 with his novel \u003ci\u003eTelephone\u003c\/i\u003e. He received the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award at the National Book Critics Circle Awards 2022, and was awarded the PEN America Award for \u003ci\u003eDr. No \u003c\/i\u003ein 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Percival Everett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45536398311652,"sku":"9780807016275","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780807016275.jpg?v=1780460303"},{"product_id":"gods-country-percival-everett-paperback","title":"God's Country -- Percival Everett, Paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Mr. Everett is successful combining heart with rage. . . . The novel sears.\" ―David Bowman, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 'comic and fierce' novel spoofs the classic Western format with the dark, incisive humor we've come to expect from its acclaimed author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The unlikely narrator through this tale of misadventures is one Curt Marder: gambler, drinker, cheat, and would-be womanizer. It's 1871, and he's lost his farm, his wife, and his dog to a band of marauding hooligans. With nothing to live on but a desire to recover what is rightfully his, Marder is forced to enlist the help of the best tracker in the West: a black man named Bubba. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One of the earliest works anchoring Percival Everett's illustrious career, \u003ci\u003eGod's Country\u003c\/i\u003e 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 a band of \"Injun impersonators\" pillaging his home, he has \"half a mind to ride down that hill and say somethin', but it was just half a mind after all.\" It's 1871, and he's lost his farm, his wife, and his dog to a band of marauding hooligans. With nothing to live on but a desire to recover what is rightfully his, Marder enlists the help of the best tracker in the West: a Black man named Bubba. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith an introduction from renowned novelist Madison Smartt Bell, this is the perfect edition to add to your growing Percival Everett collection. As \u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e's Michael Schaub noted, \"It's impossible to predict what the next Everett book will bring, but it's always a safe bet that it's going to be great.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Percival Everett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Beacon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.95h x 5.35w x 0.71d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807016299\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePercival Everett is the author of eleven novels including the recent \u003ci\u003eErasure, \u003c\/i\u003e which won the inaugural Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award for fiction. He lives with his wife on a small ranch and teaches at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Percival Everett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45769067266276,"sku":"9780807016299","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780807016299.jpg?v=1777349537"},{"product_id":"sonnets-for-a-missing-key-and-some-others-percival-everett-paperback","title":"Sonnets for a Missing Key: And Some Others -- Percival Everett, Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThese sonnets were inspired by the Preludes of Chopin.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Percival Everett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Red Hen Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781636281667\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/20\/2024","brand":"Percival Everett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45821149839588,"sku":"9781636281667","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9781636281667.jpg?v=1732671701"},{"product_id":"dr-no-percival-everett-paperback","title":"Dr. No -- Percival Everett, Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star keeps rising\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eis \u003c\/i\u003ean 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. Once he controls nothing he'll proceed with a dastardly plan to turn a Massachusetts town into nothing. Or so he thinks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith the help of the brainy and brainwashed astrophysicist-turned-henchwoman Eigen Vector, our professor tries to foil the villain while remaining in his employ. In the process, Wala Kitu learns that Sill's desire to become a literal Bond villain originated in some real all-American villainy related to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. As Sill says, \"Professor, think of it this way. This country has never given anything to us and it never will. We have given everything to it. I think it's time we gave nothing back.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDr. No\u003c\/i\u003e is a caper with teeth, a wildly mischievous novel from one of our most inventive, provocative, and productive writers. That it is about nothing isn't to say that it's not about anything. In fact, it's about villains. Bond villains. 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