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American Desert by Percival Everett
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
As American Desert opens, the novel's hero, Theodore Street, is driving towards the ocean, where he plans to walk into the waves and drown himself. But on his way, he is hit headlong by an oncoming van. He sails through the windshield, his head is sliced cleanly from his body, his suicidal plans unwitti ...Show more
Assumption by Percival Everett
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman's murderer. But at the crime scene, his are the only footprints leading up to and away from her door. Something is amiss, and even his mother knows it. As other cases pile up, Ogden gives chase, pursuing flimsy lead ...Show more
Damned If I Do by Percival Everett
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen and even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man ends up in a high-speed chase with the cops after stealing the car that blocks the garbage bin at his apartment building. A stranger gets a job at a san ...Show more
Dr. No by Percival Everett
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Wala Kitu is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an 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. W ...Show more
Erasure (Adapted for the screen as American Fiction) by Percival Everett
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Introduced by Brandon Taylor - Booker-shortlisted author of Real Life - Erasure is an unforgettable, satirical but tender novel about race and cultural expectations in contemporary America. 'Truly brilliant.' Los Angeles Review of Books 'A classic.' The Times 'A remarkable novel.' Wall Street Journal Wi ...Show more
I Am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
'A scandalously under-recognised contemporary master' - The Wall Street Journal I am Not Sidney Poitier is a hilarious and irresistible take on race, class and identity. The sudden death of Not Sidney Poitier's mother orphans him at age eleven. He is left with a name no one understands, an uncanny resem ...Show more
James by Percival Everett
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees, James is an enthralling and ferociously funny novel that leaves an indelible mark, forcing us to see Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in a wholly new and transformative light. The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhe ...Show more
James - A Novel by Percival Everett
$54.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. - From the "cult literary icon" (Oprah Daily), Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime When the enslaved ...Show more
Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction A man visits his ageing 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 t ...Show more
So Much Blue by Percival Everett
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
'Absorbing in its simplicity about bourgeois banality and the quest for expression' NEW YORK TIMES Kevin Pace is working on a painting that he won't allow anyone to see: not his children; not his best friend, Richard; not even his wife, Linda. The painting is a canvas of twelve feet by twenty-one feet ...Show more