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Everett, Percival L.
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Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Storytelling -- Fiction.
Older parents -- Fiction.
Older people -- Psychology -- Fiction.
Nursing home patients -- Fiction.
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Everett, Percival L.
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Storytelling -- Fiction.
Older parents -- Fiction.
Older people -- Psychology -- Fiction.
Nursing home patients -- Fiction.
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Percival
Everett
by
Virgil
Russell
: a
novel
/
Percival
Everett
.
by
Everett
,
Percival
L.
Graywolf Press, c2013.
Call #:
FICTION EVE
Subjects
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Storytelling -- Fiction.
Older parents -- Fiction.
Older people -- Psychology -- Fiction.
Nursing home patients -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781555976347 (trade pbk.)
1555976344 (trade pbk.)
Description:
227 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Summary:
"A story inside a story inside a story. A man visits his aging father in a nursing home, where his father writes the
novel
he imagines his son would write. Or is it the
novel
that the son imagines his father would imagine, if he were to imagine the kind of
novel
the son would write? Let's simplify: a woman seeks an apprenticeship with a painter, claiming to be his long-lost daughter. A contractor-for-hire named Murphy can't distinguish between the two brothers who employ him. And in Murphy's troubled dreams, Nat Turner imagines the life of William Styron. These narratives twist together with anecdotes from the nursing home, each building on the other until they crest in a wild, outlandish excursion of the inmates led by the father. Anchoring these shifting plotlines is a running commentary between father and son that sheds doubt on the truthfulness of each story. Because, after all, what narrator can we ever trust? Not only is
Percival
Everett
by
Virgil
Russell
a powerful, compassionate meditation on old age and its humiliations, it is an ingenious culmination of
Everett
's recurring preoccupations. All of his prior work, his metaphysical and philosophical inquiries, his investigations into the nature of narrative, have led to this masterful book.
Percival
Everett
has never been more cunning, more brilliant and subversive, than he is in this, his most important and elusive
novel
to date."--Publisher.
Genre:
Psychological fiction.
Black fiction.
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Adult Black Fiction
FICTION EVE
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Adult Black Fiction
FICTION EVE
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Adult Black Fiction
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