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ISBN: 9781555975272 - I am Not Sidney Poitier

I am Not Sidney Poitier
Percival Everett

ISBN10: 1555975275 ISBN13: 9781555975272
Publisher: Graywolf Press,U.S.
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 May 2010
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 a strange name, an uncanny resemblance to the famous actor, and, perhaps more fortunately, a staggering... More

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Damned If I Do
Percival Everett

ISBN10: 1555974112 ISBN13: 9781555974114
Publisher: Graywolf Press,U.S.
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 12 Jan 2004
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 high-speed chase with the cops after stealing the car that blocks the garbage bin at his... More

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Wounded
Percival Everett

ISBN10: 0571232442 ISBN13: 9780571232444
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 15 Feb 2007
Training horses is dangerous. It is these same qualities that allow John and his uncle Gus to live in the beautiful high desert of Wyoming. A black horse-trainer is a curiosity, at the very least, but the brutal murder of a young gay man pushes... More

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Wounded
Percival Everett

ISBN10: 0571232450 ISBN13: 9780571232451
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 Aug 2008
Training horses is dangerous - a head-to-head confrontation with 1,000 pounds of muscle takes courage. It is these same qualities that allow John and his uncle Gus to live in the beautiful high desert of Wyoming. This novel explores a divided... More

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American Desert
Percival Everett

ISBN10: 0571226620 ISBN13: 9780571226627
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 06 Apr 2006
Theodore Street is driving towards the ocean where he plans to drown himself. But, on the way, he is hit by a van and he sails through the windscreen, his head sliced from his body. At his funeral days later, he sits up in his coffin... More

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Wounded
Percival Everett

ISBN10: 184782174X ISBN13: 9781847821744
Publisher: F A Thorpe (Publishers) Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd
Edition: Large type edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Apr 2008

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Frenzy
Percival Everett

ISBN10: 1555972446 ISBN13: 9781555972448
Publisher: Graywolf Press,U.S.
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Feb 1997
Among the gods, Dionysos is the wildest and darkest, the most given to excess, eroticism, and frenzy. In this wickedly funny novel, Percival Everett revisits the age-old myth, and takes a closer look at this eccentric half-man, half-god. More

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Suder
Percival Everett

ISBN10: 0807123870 ISBN13: 9780807123874
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 May 1999
Craig Suder, third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, is in a terrible slump. He's batting below .200 at the plate, and even worse in bed with his wife; and he secretly fears he's inherited his mother's insanity. Ordered to take a midseason rest... More

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Cutting Lisa
Percival Everett

ISBN10: 0807126403 ISBN13: 9780807126400
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Oct 2000
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. More

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Glyph
Percival Everett

ISBN10: 1555972969 ISBN13: 9781555972967
Publisher: Graywolf Press,U.S.
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 25 Nov 1999
Mute by choice, and able to read complex philosophical treatises and compose passable short stories while still in the crib, baby Ralph does not consider himself a genius - because he is unable to drive. Plenty of others, however, want a stake in... More

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