Percival Everett: Damned If I Do: Stories
Damned If I Do: Stories
Buch
- Stories
- Graywolf Press, 11/2004
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781555974114
- Bestellnummer: 2099920
- Umfang: 208 Seiten
- Gewicht: 277 g
- Maße: 219 x 136 mm
- Stärke: 15 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 1.11.2004
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Damned If I Do is an exceptional new collection of short stories by Percival Everett, author of the highly praised and wickedly funny novel ErasurePeople are just naturally hopeful, a term my grandfather used to tell me was more than occasionally interchangeable with stupid.
A cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen, and a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man ends up in a high-speed car 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.
Percival Everett is a master storyteller who ingeniously addresses issues of race and prejudice by simultaneously satirizing and celebrating the human condition.
