The Trees: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize by Percival Everett (English) Paperb

Description: The Trees by Percival Everett The Booker Prize-shortlisted satire of revenge and racial justice in America. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A Sunday Times Fiction Book of the YearWinner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic FictionA Sunday Times Novel of the YearShortlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everetts The Trees is a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America.He makes a revenge fantasy into a comic horror masterpiece. – Los Angeles TimesWhen the rural town of Money, Mississippi is beset by a series of brutal murders, a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, only to be met with resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a mob of racist white townsfolk. This, they expect. Less predictable, however, is the second corpse which appears at each crime scene: that of a man resembling Emmett Till, the young Black boy lynched in the same town sixty-five years earlier.As a spate of copycat killings spreads across the country, what begins as a murder investigation soon becomes a journey into the soul of Americas violent past.From the author of James, longlisted for the Booker Prize, and Erasure, adapted into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction.Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy. - The New York Times Author Biography Percival Everett is the author of over thirty published works, including Zulus, Erasure, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Assumption, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, Telephone, The Trees, Dr. No and James. A Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Everett has won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, the Academy Award in Literature, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, and the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Fiction. In 2022, The Trees was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.Everett lives in Los Angeles, CA, where he is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. Review The genius of this novel is that in an age of reactionary populism it goes on the offensive, using popular forms to address a deep political issue as page-turning comic horror. * The Guardian *Its about time this extraordinary American writer got some credit this side of the Pond. * The Sunday Times *He has made some audacious leaps over nearly 40 years of writing, but The Trees may be his most audacious. He makes a revenge fantasy into a comic horror masterpiece. He turns narrative stakes into moral stakes and raises them sky-high. Readers will laugh until it hurts. * Los Angeles Times *The Trees feels powerfully prescient. * The Financial Times *A powerful wake-up call, as well as an act of literary restitution. * Guardian *Satire in the great tradition of Swift by way of South Park. * The Daily Telegraph *The novelist has regularly exploded our models of genre and identity. In The Trees, hes raising the stakes, confronting Americas legacy of lynching in a mystery at once hilarious and horrifying. * The New Yorker *Everett deploys goofy humour and caricature in a high stakes, high concept crime novel in which Americas history of racial violence is itself the perpetrator. * Daily Mail * Details ISBN1035036614 Author Percival Everett Pages 352 Publisher Pan Macmillan Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781035036615 Format Paperback Publication Date 2023-10-05 Imprint Picador Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Audience General UK Release Date 2023-10-05 Language English ISBN-10 1035036614 DEWEY 813.6 Audience Age 18 Subtitle Shortlisted for the Booker Prize We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:145284642;

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