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Ron Butler
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Percival Everett
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A baffling triptych of murder mysteries by the author of I Am Not Sidney Poitier
Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman's murderer. But at the crime scene, his are the only footprints leading up to and away from her door. Something is amiss, and even his mother knows it. As other cases pile up, Ogden gives chase, pursuing flimsy leads for even flimsier reasons. His hunt leads him from the seamier side of Denver to a hippie commune as he seeks the puzzling solution.
In Assumption, his follow-up to the wickedly funny I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Percival Everett is in top form as he once again upends our expectations about characters, plot, race, and meaning. A wild ride to the heart of a baffling mystery, Assumption is a literary thriller like no other.
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Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow area—the geological history of a cave forty-four meters above the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon—he is a laconic man who plays chess with his daughter, trades puns with his wife while she does yoga, and dodges committee work at the college where he teaches. After a field trip to the desert yields nothing more than a colleague with a tenure problem and a student with an unwelcome crush on him, Wells returns home to find his world crumbling.
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The title says it all
- De Tina K en 09-07-24
De: Percival Everett
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So Much Blue
- De: Percival Everett
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 131
Kevin Pace is working on a painting that he won't allow anyone to see: not his children, not his best friend, Richard, not even his wife, Linda. The painting is a canvas of 12 feet by 21 feet (and three inches) that is covered entirely in shades of blue. It may be his masterpiece or it may not; he doesn't know or, more accurately, doesn't care. What Kevin does care about are the events of the past.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Audio version is annoying
- De Krykie en 11-25-17
De: Percival Everett
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Telephone
- A Novel
- De: Percival Everett
- Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 29
Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow area—the geological history of a cave forty-four meters above the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon—he is a laconic man who plays chess with his daughter, trades puns with his wife while she does yoga, and dodges committee work at the college where he teaches. After a field trip to the desert yields nothing more than a colleague with a tenure problem and a student with an unwelcome crush on him, Wells returns home to find his world crumbling.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Unresolved
- De Amazon Customer en 04-22-25
De: Percival Everett
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Percival Everett by Virgil Russell
- A Novel
- De: Percival Everett
- Narrado por: André Santana
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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?
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5 out of 5 stars
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I enjoyed the writing...the smartness and for the most part the truth.
- De Kindle Customer en 01-05-25
De: Percival Everett
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The Trees
- A Novel
- De: Percival Everett
- Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 550
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 488
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 489
Percival Everett's The Trees is a must-listen that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Mindless repetitive bigotry
- De Catherine Spiller en 03-27-23
De: Percival Everett
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Erasure
- A Novel
- De: Percival Everett
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 609
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 551
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 551
Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines of the literary establishment as he watches the meteoric success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, a first novel by a woman who once visited "some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days."
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Rollercoaster That Never Descends
- De Amazon Customer en 01-07-24
De: Percival Everett
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Walk Me to the Distance
- De: Percival Everett
- Narrado por: Jared Zeus
- Duración: 6 h y 30 m
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
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Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
In self-imposed exile after returning home from the war in Vietnam, David Larson meanders into the barren town of Slut's Hole, Wyoming, where a local widow takes him under her wing. After making a sort of home among the town's hardscrabble locals, David grudgingly adopts a young Vietnamese girl abandoned along the highway. This sets in motion a set of tragic turns as Western mythos and frontier justice clash against the tides of a changing world.
De: Percival Everett
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Half an Inch of Water
- Stories
- De: Percival Everett
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 4 h y 44 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
Percival Everett's long-awaited new collection of stories, his first since 2004's Damned If I Do, finds him traversing the West with characteristic restlessness. A deaf Native American girl wanders off into the desert and is found untouched in a den of rattlesnakes. A young boy copes with the death of his sister by angling for an unnaturally large trout in the creek where she drowned. An old woman rides her horse into a mountain snowstorm and sees a long-dead beloved dog.
De: Percival Everett
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A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as Told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid
- A Novel
- De: Percival Everett, James Kincaid
- Narrado por: James Fouhey
- Duración: 8 h
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
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Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
Everett and Kincaid present a fictitious chronicle of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond's desire to pen a history of African Americans—his and his aides' belief being that he has done as much, or more, than any American to shape that history. An epistolary novel, A History follows the letters of loose-cannon congressional office workers, insane interns at a large New York publishing house, and disturbed publishing executives, along with homicidal rival editors, kindly family friends, and an aspiring author named Septic.
De: Percival Everett, y otros
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James
- A Novel
- De: Percival Everett
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 13,672
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 12,936
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 12,936
When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers/listeners of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can we ever be free
- De J. Stirling en 04-04-24
De: Percival Everett
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
- A Novel
- De: James McBride
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 11,074
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10,270
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10,268
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Multiple Stories Obfuscate Narrative
- De Stephnsea en 08-12-23
De: James McBride
Simply everett
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