Best Selling Books by Percival Everett

Retired Virginia obstetrician John Livesey, recently widowed and discouraged by the world''s crumbling morals, meets a man who has just performed an unnecessary cesarean section on his wife so as to be the one to deliver their child. Though initially appalled by the act, Livesey finds himself recalling it later when he learns a friend is dying of cancer, when his affair with a younger woman ends in disillusionment, and when, during an extended visit to his son and his family in Oregon, he realizes his daughter-in-law''s unborn baby does not belong to her husband. Coming to admire the calm directness with which the man took matters of life and death into his own hands, Livesey begins to reconsider what he values and what he will protect.

James es un libro fascinante. Una reescritura de Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn de Mark Twain desde el punto de vista de Jim, el esclavo. Con el humor típico de Percival Everett y una inteligencia sobrecogedora, el lector vive una gran aventura, la de la libertad. James es el nombre de la dignidad. El esclavo ha visitado de forma clandestina la biblioteca de su amo y ha aprendido a leer y escribir. Cuando se entera de que lo han vendido y lo van a separar de su mujer y su hija decide escaparse. En esa aventura trepidante lo acompaña Huck. Los dos se convierten en una pareja de personajes que se necesitan mutuamente no sólo para sobrevivir, también para conocerse y saber cuál es su verdadera conexión. El lenguaje es fundamental en este libro de lectura trepidante construido casi enteramente en diálogos inteligentes. Las críticas han sido excepcionales en todos los grandes medios de comunicación de Estados Unidos y Reino Unido. Considerada de forma generalizada como una obra de arte ha encumbrado a Percival Everett en la cima de los autores literarios contemporáneos de su país. Una fascinante y conmovedora lectura para todas las edades. Percival Everett es un escritor estadounidense distinguido con numerosos premios. Sus libros más recientes han sido publicados en De Conatus. Dr. No ganó el premio PEN 2023 Los árboles fue finalista del Booker Prize 2022. Cuánto azul considerado una obra fundamental por el crítico James Wood. American Fiction, ganadora del óscar 2024 al mejor guión adaptado está basada en su obra Cancelado. Próximamente en De Conatus también publicaremos Telephone, finalista del premio Pulitzer en 2021 y su obra poética Sonetos para una tonalidad perdida.

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett''s The Trees is a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America. ‘Page-turning comic horror’ – The Guardian ‘Satire in the great tradition of Swift by way of South Park’ – The Daily Telegraph ‘Hilarious and horrifying’ – The New Yorker When the rural town of Money, Mississippi is beset by a series of brutal murders, a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive. They''re greeted with resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a mob of racist white townsfolk. This, they expect. Less predictable, however, is the second corpse which appears at each crime scene: that of a man resembling Emmett Till, the young Black boy lynched in the same town sixty-five years earlier. As a spate of copycat killings spreads across the country, what begins as a murder investigation soon becomes a journey into the soul of America’s violent past . . . Read Percival''s Pulitzer Prize-winning and Booker prize-shortlisted novel James.

Retired Virginia obstetrician John Livesey, recently widowed and discouraged by the world''s crumbling morals, meets a man who has just performed an unnecessary cesarean section on his wife so as to be the one to deliver their child. Though initially appalled by the act, Livesey finds himself recalling it later when he learns a friend is dying of cancer, when his affair with a younger woman ends in disillusionment, and when, during an extended visit to his son and his family in Oregon, he realizes his daughter-in-law''s unborn baby does not belong to her husband. Coming to admire the calm directness with which the man took matters of life and death into his own hands, Livesey begins to reconsider what he values and what he will protect. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man in an absurd country. The sudden death of his mother orphans him at age eleven, leaving him with an unfortunate name, an uncanny resemblance to the famous actor, and, perhaps more fortunate, a staggering number of shares in the Turner Broadcasting Corporation. Percival Everett''s hilarious new novel follows Not Sidney''s tumultuous life, as the social hierarchy scrambles to balance his skin color with his fabulous wealth. Maturing under the less-than watchful eye of his adopted foster father, Ted Turner, Not gets arrested in rural Georgia for driving while black, sparks a dinner table explosion at the home of his manipulative girlfriend, and sleuths a murder case in Smut Eye, Alabama, all while navigating the recurrent communication problem: ''''What''s your name?'''' a kid would ask. ''''Not Sidney, '''' I would say. ''''Okay, then what is it?''''

These stories by Percival Everett, teacher at the University of Kentucky and author of Suder, Walk Me to the Distance and Cutting Lisa, are unified by spare dialogue, tight plot development andout.

In Percival Everett''s sixth book of dark, comic moralizing on the fate of the planet, its people, and the absurd Meaning of It All, readers are taken into the pitiable life of Alice Achitophel, a grotesquely obese government clerk, social outcast, and, apparently, the world''s only fertile woman in the aftermath of worldwide nuclear holocaust. The ultimate question is humanity''s survival. -- San Francisco Chronicle New American Writing Award

''American literature''s philosopher king - and its sharpest satirist'' - The New Yorker Craig Suder, third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, is in a slump. His batting average is shocking, his marriage somehow worse, and he secretly fears he''s inherited his mother''s insanity. Ordered to take a midseason rest, Suder instead takes his LP of Charlie Parker''s "Ornithology" and flees. A dazzling tale of madness, confinement and the need for escape, Suder introduced Percival Everett to the world as a writer already fully capable of conjuring whole lives and worlds on the page. Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.

Lewis Martin, a retired college professor, stumbles upon the body of a friend of his, Martin Aguilera, when he stops by his cabin for a quick visit. When he later returns with the sheriff, the body is no longer there and there is no real evidence that anything had taken place in the cabin.

Three cowhands chase and corral ones in this zany book about the Wild West.

''Percival Everett’s Grand Canyon, Inc. relates the tragicomic tale of crack rifle shot Winchell Nathaniel “Rhino” Tanner; his sidekick Simpson Trane, aka BB (named for the BB pellet lodged inextricably in his skull); and their battle to “acquire” the Grand Canyon by constructing an amusement park on Plateau Point. Matched with an artwork by Richard Prince, the publication is part of Gagosian’s Picture Books, an imprint conceived by author Emma Cline and dedicated to publishing fiction by leading authors alongside contributions by celebrated contemporary artists. Prince’s photograph, Untitled (Original Cowboy), which depicts the sandstone buttes of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park on the Arizona-Utah border, sees the artist continue his long engagement with the iconography of the American West. For this series, instead of rephotographing and manipulating images clipped from magazine advertisements, as he has done before, Prince visited the area to seek out quintessential viewpoints established by preceding photographers. “Prince is so wily and wry, in ways that echo Everett,” says Emma Cline. “They are both tricksters who take a sideways look at the mythology of the West and reveal it anew.”''--Publisher description.

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.