Percival Everett
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Om forfatteren
Percival Everett is a professor of English at the University of Southern California.
Værker af Percival Everett
A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid (A… (2004) 96 eksemplarer
The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, VA, 1843: Annotated From the Library of John C. Calhoun (2019) 11 eksemplarer
Ploughshares, Fall 2014 4 eksemplarer
The Appropriation of Cultures 2 eksemplarer
Hear That Long Train Moan [short fiction] 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (1990) — Bidragyder — 276 eksemplarer
Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (1992) — Bidragyder — 100 eksemplarer
The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (2017) — Bidragyder — 17 eksemplarer
Satte nøgleord på
Almen Viden
- Fødselsdato
- 1956
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Ft. Gordon, Georgia, USA
- Bopæl
- Columbia, South Carolina, Verenigde Staten
Los Angeles, Californië, Verenigde Staten - Uddannelse
- Brown University (MFA/Writing)
University of Miami (BA/Philosophy) - Erhverv
- professor
- Organisationer
- Fellowship of Southern Writers
University of Southern California - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Hillsdale Award for Fiction (2001)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [2003])
PEN Center USA Award for Fiction (2006)
New American Writing Award
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction
PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award (vis alle 8)
John Dos Passos Prize (2010)
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award (2022)
Medlemmer
Discussions
AMERICAN AUTHORS CHALLENGE--AUGUST 2023--PERCIVAL EVERETT i 75 Books Challenge for 2023 (marts 24)
Is this (name a book!) worth finishing? i Book talk (marts 2023)
Anmeldelser
The Trees
I attempted this book (audiobook format). Either the dialogue was horrible, not well-suited for audio format, or performed badly. I couldn't finish it.
This alternative version of Huckleberry Finn shines the spotlight on Jim, an enslaved man who runs away when he learns he’s about to be sold. Like in the original novel, Jim meets up with Huck but they are soon separated, and Jim takes center stage. Percival Everett gives readers a fully formed version of Jim with intellect, emotions, and a life story. He portrays enslaved people as people, not chattel. On some level I already knew this, but Everett’s use of the classic “show, don’t tell” method reached me in new ways while also being a rollicking good tale.… (mere)
After initial resistance to the dialogue in dialect, those sentences became an ironic and amusing twist along with many in this story of the slave, Jim, now James, and Huckleberry Finn and their fraught travels on the Mississippi River. The book hummed along with occasional references to his reading (John Locke, Voltaire, even Kafka) as James is a stealthy literate whose most prized possession is a pencil. Brilliant, scary and funny.
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