Персиваль Эверетт — библиография

Иностранная литература (2020, № 8)

Percival Everett’s The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, VA, 1843, Annotated From the Library of John C. Calhoun, is poetry within the harsh confines of a mock historical document—a guidebook for the American slave owner. The collection features lists of instructions for buying, training, and punishing, equations for calculating present and future profits, and handwritten annotations affirming the brutal contents. The Book of Training lays bare the mechanics of the peculiar institution of slavery and challenges readers to place themselves in the uncomfortable vantage point of those who have bought and enslaved human beings.

Praise for Percival Everett:“If Percival Everett isn’t already a household name, it’s because people are more interested in politics than truth.”—Madison Smartt Bell, author of The Washington Square Ensemble“Everett’s talent is multifaceted, sparked by a satiric brilliance that could place him alongside Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison . . .”—Publishers Weekly“I think Percival Everett is a genius. I’ve been a fan since his first novel. He continues to amaze me with each novel—as if he likes making 90-degree turns to see what’s around the corner, and then over the edge . . . He’s a brilliant writer and so damn smart I envy him.”—Terry…

Отец и дочь едут на прогулку в горы, но оказываются в серьезной опасности.

Acclaimed author Percival Everett will take an atheist’s-eye-view of the little-known “Jefferson Bible,” the third president’s response to the King James Bible.Percival Everett’s novel Erasure won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and his most recent, A History of the African-American People [Proposed] by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett and James Kincaid [A Novel] ruffled many Confederate feathers.

Малыш Ральф, носитель ужасающе мощного интеллекта с коэффициентом 475, не приемлет речь по причинам философским и эстетическим. Кроме того, к 4 годам его похищают: 1. психически неустойчивая психиатресса, которая желает вскрыть его мозг; 2. пентагоновский полковник, который желает превратить его в совершенную шпионскую машину; 3. мексиканская пара, мечтающая о собственном ребенке; 4. католический священник, стремящийся изгнать из него демонов. И все это — лишь начало счастливого детства.