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Damned If I Do
- Author
- Percival Everett
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 23 May 2024
- Run Time
- 5 hours 16 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Damned If I Do is a set of brilliantly postmodern short stories from the twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees, James and Erasure.
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 sandwich shop and fixes everything in sight: a manual mustard dispenser, a mouthful of crooked teeth, thirty-two parking tickets and a sexual identity problem.
Everett skewers race, class, identity, surrealism and much more in this masterful short story collection from one of America's most inventive living writers.
Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.
Critics Review
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Rooted in a profound sense of rural place, [the stories in Damned If I Do] are original and subtle, canny and soulful – full, too, of sublimely sardonic humour. As for its characters, they’re so multidimensional that their ethnicity is but one item on a long list of expectation-dashing attributes.
The Guardian
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It's hard to pigeonhole Percival Everett. Working between the traditions of the academy and the African American tall tale, he writes with a sharp satirical voice
Playboy
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I think Percival Everett is a genius. He's a brilliant writer and so damn smart I envy him.
Terry McMillan
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Clever and thought-provoking, this is a memorable collection
Publishers Weekly
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Details
- Author
- Percival Everett
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 5 hours 16 minutes
- Release Date
- 23 May 2024
- ISBN
- 9781035036455
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Humorous fiction, Short stories, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction
Synopsis
Damned If I Do is a set of brilliantly postmodern short stories from the twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees, James and Erasure.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 sandwich shop and fixes everything in sight: a manual mustard dispenser, a mouthful of crooked teeth, thirty-two parking tickets and a sexual identity problem.Everett skewers race, class, identity, surrealism and much more in this masterful short story collection from one of America's most inventive living writers.Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.
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