Percival Everett Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

Nach dem Welterfolg von »James« ein neuer Roman von Percival Everett – ein brillantes Kabinettstück mit Schurken à la James Bond: Dr. No ist ein renommierter Professor für Mathematik an der Brown University, Experte für das Nichts. Das macht ihn zum perfekten Berater für den Schwarzen Milliardär John Sill. Dieser will einen in Fort Knox bewahrten Schuhkarton knacken, in dem sich angeblich »nichts« befindet. Denn wer das Nichts kontrolliert, soll die Weltherrschaft an sich reißen können – und Sill sinnt wegen der jahrhundertelangen Ungerechtigkeit der Weißen auf Rache. Percival Everett hat einen hinreißenden Spionageroman und einen satirischen Seitenhieb auf Ethnie und Macht in den USA geschrieben.

Percival Everett explores themes of absence and longing in his captivating poetry collection, Sonnets for a Missing Key. Known for his acclaimed novels, Everett's return to poetry offers a fresh perspective, weaving intricate sonnets that delve into personal and universal experiences. This collection showcases his unique voice and literary prowess, inviting readers to reflect on the complexities of life and the search for meaning.

»Das ist ein großer Literaturspaß!« Denis Scheck USA, Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts: Im Städtchen Money in den Südstaaten werden mehrere Männer ermordet: meist dick, doof und weiß. Neben jeder Leiche taucht ein Körper auf, der die Züge von Emmett Till trägt, eines 1955 gelynchten Schwarzen Jungen. Zwei afroamerikanische Detektive ermitteln, doch der Sheriff sowie eine Gruppe hartnäckiger Rednecks leisten erbitterten Widerstand. Als sich die Morde auf ganz Amerika ausweiten, suchen die Detektive des Rätsels Lösung in den Archiven von Mama Z, die seit Jahrzehnten über die Opfer der Lynchjustiz in Money Buch führt. Eine atemberaubende Mischung aus Parodie und Hardboiled-Thriller, wie es sie bislang in der amerikanischen Literatur nicht gegeben hat.

A classic of politics, murder, and espionage "Watershed 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, National Public Radio "It’s hard . . . to imagine a novelist today with fresher eyes than Percival Everett."―Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune 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. Watershed is an excellent example of Percival Everett’s famed bitingly political narrative style.

V citlivo poňatom románe, prekypujúcom elektrizujúcim humorom a zdrvujúcimi postrehmi, sa zotročený Jim a mladý Huck Finn snažia dostať na vytúžený sever. Cestou pritom spoznávajú nielen seba navzájom, ale aj krajinu, ktorú nazývali domovom. Hlboké a vytrvalé hľadanie ľudskosti prerozprávané tentoraz Jimovými slovami odhaľuje jeho prenikavý intelekt, ale aj ľudský súcit a túžbu po pokoji a slobode, ktorú cíti každý človek. Percival Everett prepísal klasické dielo americkej literatúry pre dnešnú dobu a dnešného čitateľa, pričom ho doplnil o naratív, ktorý z neho právom spravil ikonu súčasnej americkej prózy.

Percival Everett's deadpan humor and insightful commentary about the artistic life culminate in a gorgeous novel.

A brilliantly postmodern set of short stories from one of America's most inventive living writers.

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

A story inside a story inside a story. A man visits his aging father in a nursing home, where his father writes the novel he imagines his son would write. Or is it the novel that the son imagines his father would imagine, if he were to imagine the kind of novel the son would write?Not only is Percival Everett by Virgil Russell a powerful, compassionate meditation on old age and its humiliations, it is an ingenious culmination of Everett's recurring preoccupations. All of his prior work, his metaphysical and philosophical inquiries, his investigations into the nature of narrative, have led to this masterful book. Percival Everett has never been more cunning, more brilliant and subversive, than he is in this, his most important and elusive novel to date.Published for the first time in the UK, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell is like nothing you've read before, or will ever read again.