Erasure, Paperback
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Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and writing, available again in paperback Thelonious ""Monk"" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been ""critically acclaimed."" He seethes on the sidelines of the literary establishment as he watches the meteoric success of ""We's Lives in Da Ghetto,"" a first novel by a woman who once visited ""some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days."" Meanwhile, Monk struggles with real family tragedies his aged mother is fast succumbing to Alzheimer's, and he still grapples with the reverberations of his father's suicide seven years before. In his rage and despair, Monk dashes off a novel meant to be an indictment of Juanita Mae Jenkins's bestseller. He doesn't intend for ""My Pafology ""to be published, let alone taken seriously, but it is under the pseudonym Stagg R. Leigh and soon it becomes the Next Big Thing. How Monk deals with the personal and professional fallout galvanizes this audacious, hysterical, and quietly devastating novel.""
Despre autor
Percival Leonard Everett II este un autor american și profesor distins de literatură engleză la Universitatea din California de Sud. S-a descris pe sine ca fiind „patologic ironic” și a explorat numeroase genuri, cum ar fi western-ul, misterul, thriller-ul, satira și ficțiunea filozofică. Cărțile sale sunt adesea satirice, având ca scop explorarea problemelor legate de rasă și identitate în Statele Unite.
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