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Everett Percival - Percival Everett By Virgil Russell A Novel - Paperback
Everett Percival - Percival Everett By Virgil Russell A Novel - Paperback
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Description: " Anything we take for granted Mr. Everett means to show us may turn out to be a lie." Wall Street Journal* Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * Finalist for the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction * 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? Let's simplify: a woman seeks an apprenticeship with a painter claiming to be his long - lost daughter. A contractor - for - hire named Murphy can't distinguish between the two brothers who employ him. And in Murphy's troubled dreams Nat Turner imagines the life of William Styron. These narratives twist together with anecdotes from the nursing home each building on the other until they crest in a wild outlandish excursion of the inmates led by the father. Anchoring these shifting plotlines is a running commentary between father and son that sheds doubt on the truthfulness of each story. Because after all what narrator can we ever trust? 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.
Title: Percival Everett By Virgil Russell A Novel
Author(s): Everett Percival
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Barcode: 9781555976347
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/5/2013
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: " Anything we take for granted Mr. Everett means to show us may turn out to be a lie." Wall Street Journal* Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * Finalist for the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction * 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? Let's simplify: a woman seeks an apprenticeship with a painter claiming to be his long - lost daughter. A contractor - for - hire named Murphy can't distinguish between the two brothers who employ him. And in Murphy's troubled dreams Nat Turner imagines the life of William Styron. These narratives twist together with anecdotes from the nursing home each building on the other until they crest in a wild outlandish excursion of the inmates led by the father. Anchoring these shifting plotlines is a running commentary between father and son that sheds doubt on the truthfulness of each story. Because after all what narrator can we ever trust? 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.
Title: Percival Everett By Virgil Russell A Novel
Author(s): Everett Percival
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Barcode: 9781555976347
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/5/2013
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
