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Everett (English, Univ. of Southern California), author of The Trees and Erasure, has written an even richer and penetrating Adventures than Twain’s already rich masterpiece. It will fly off library shelves.
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Dr. No
Abdullah’s narration brings this novel to the next level; a highly recommended purchase for all public libraries.
Dr. No
A go-for-broke work of literary comedy that successfully blends rib-tickling eccentricity with affecting and stealthily moving discourse on race, wealth, and the failures of neoliberal institutions; you’re unlikely to read anything funnier this year.
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So Much Blue
Prolific and prodigiously talented novelist Everett tells the story of a painter who will not show his wife, children, or his best friend his work in progress, made up all of shades of blue...
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Half an Inch of Water
Like Margaret Randall's Stone Witness, Half Inch of Water will appeal to lovers of literary and nature fiction.
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Everett Percival by Virgil Russell
This is a challenging book, but well worth the read; you won't think about popular fiction, the world of ideas, or old age in the same way again.
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Everett Percival by Virgil Russell
An elderly man pens the novel he thinks his son would write—or perhaps it's the novel his son thinks his father might write were he writing like the son—as a contractor dreams about Nat Turner imagining the life of William Styron...
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Assumption
A work of metafiction that targets the literary rather than the genre reader but may not fully satisfy either. [See Prepub Alert, 6/6/11.]—Lawrence Rungren, Merrimack Valley Lib. Consortium, North Andover, MA
