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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, apparently resurrected. And, Theodore becomes an object of derision and morbid curiosity to the press.

Hardcover:

9780786869176 | Hachette Book Group USA, April 1, 2004, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: A satirical parable and fantasy tale by the author of Erasure finds suicidal college professor Theodore inadvertently dying in a car accident and unexpectedly resurrected during his funeral, a situation that renders him an object of morbid curiosity, embarrassment to his family, and dark worship to an obscure religious cult.

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9780571226627 | Gardners Books, April 6, 2006, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: Theodore Street is driving towards the ocean where he plans to drown himself.

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9781555975982 | Graywolf Pr, October 25, 2011, cover price $15.00

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A collection of stories offers surprising twists as the characters respond to life-altering dilemmas in both strange and comical ways

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9781555972387 | Graywolf Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A collection of stories offers surprising twists as the characters respond to life-altering dilemmas in both strange and comical ways

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Product Description: 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...read more

Hardcover:

9780899194127 | Ticknor & Fields, November 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: John Livesey, a recently retired Virginia obstetrician, spends a summer on the Oregon coast with his son's family, discovers the truth about his daughter-in-law's baby, and tries to resist the temptation to play God

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9780807126400 | Reprint edition (Louisiana State Univ Pr, October 1, 2000), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: 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.

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The author of Erasure offers a fascinating collection of new short stories featuring a policeman, a cowboy, a romance novelist, and several fly fisherman as protagonists in a series of humorous but insightful tales of modern life. Original.

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9781555974114 | Graywolf Pr, November 1, 2004, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The author of Erasure offers a fascinating collection of new short stories featuring a policeman, a cowboy, a romance novelist, and several fly fisherman as protagonists in a series of humorous but insightful tales of modern life.

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9781555975999 | Graywolf Pr, October 25, 2011, cover price $16.00

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Frustrated with his poor book sales, college professor Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison pens a fierce parody of exploitive ghetto literature entitled My Pafology, which is hailed by critics as the work of a great new voice and brings him the success he craves, but also confronts him with a difficult choice between his moral principles and his dreams. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9781584650904 | Univ Pr of New England, August 1, 2001, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Avant-garde novelist and college professor, woodworker, and fly fisherman - Thelonious Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity.

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9780786888153 | Reprint edition (Hyperion Books, October 1, 2002), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Frustrated with his poor book sales, 'Monk' Ellison writes a parody of ghetto literature that is hailed by critics as the work of a great new voice, but his success confronts him with a choice between his principles and his dreams.

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9780937669457 | Owl Creek Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $22.00

A retelling of the tale of Dionysos, the wildest and darkest of the gods, as seen through the eyes of his servant Vlepo

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9781555972448 | Graywolf Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A retelling of the tale of Dionysos, the wildest and darkest of the gods, as seen through the eyes of his servant Vlepo

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A farcical tale about Ralph, an eleven-month-old infant who reads sophisticated literature but does not consider himself a genius because he is unable to drive.

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9781555972967 | Graywolf Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A farcical tale about Ralph, an eleven-month-old infant who reads sophisticated literature but does not consider himself a genius because he is unable to drive.

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9781555976675 | Reprint edition (Graywolf Pr, February 18, 2014), cover price $15.00
9780571221127 | Gardners Books, May 20, 2004, cover price $15.75 | About this edition: With this inventive and humorous novel, Percival Everett has created his unlikeliest hero to date.

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Details the adventures in the old West of Marder, a coward and racist, and of Bubba, a Black tracker, as they try to find Marder's kidnapped wife

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9780571198320 | Faber & Faber, May 1, 1994, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Details the adventures in the old West of Marder, a coward and racist, and of Bubba, a Black tracker, as they try to find Marder's kidnapped wife

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Paperback:

9780807083635 | 1 edition (Beacon Pr, May 15, 2003), cover price $18.00

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9780413623706, titled "A Natural Approach to Horse Management" | Methuen, October 1, 1992, cover price $34.95 | also contains A Natural Approach to Horse Management

Paperback:

9781555977191 | Graywolf Pr, September 15, 2015, cover price $16.00

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Presents a fictitious chronicle of a former senator Strom Thurmond's efforts to write a history of African Americans, revealing the antics of Congressional office workers, publishing house interns, editors, and rival editors.

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9781888451573 | Akashic Books, April 1, 2004, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Presents a fictitious chronicle of a former senator Strom Thurmond's efforts to write a history of African Americans, revealing the antics of Congressional office workers, publishing house interns, editors, and rival editors.

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9781555975272 | Original edition (Graywolf Pr, May 26, 2009), cover price $16.00

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Product Description: "Innovative, comic, bizarre and beautiful, The Impossibly reads as if Donald Barthelme were channeling Alain Robbe-Grillet, Samuel Beckett, Ben Marcus and reruns of Get Smart."—Time Out New YorkWhen the anonymous narrator botches an assignment from the clandestine organization that employs him, everyone in his life becomes a participant in his punishment...read more
By Percival L. Everett (introduced by) and Laird Hunt

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9781566892810 | Reprint edition (Coffee House Pr, January 24, 2012), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: "Innovative, comic, bizarre and beautiful, The Impossibly reads as if Donald Barthelme were channeling Alain Robbe-Grillet, Samuel Beckett, Ben Marcus and reruns of Get Smart.

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Product Description: In a literary reversal as deadly serious as it is wickedly satiric, this novel by the acclaimed French-speaking African writer Abdourahman A. Waberi turns the fortunes of the world upside down. On this reimagined globe a stream of sorry humanity flows from the West, from the slums of America and the squalor of Europe, to escape poverty and desperation in the prosperous United States of Africa...read more
By David Ball (trans), Nicole Ball (trans), Percival L. Everett (foreword by) and Abdourahman A. Waberi

Hardcover:

9780803213913 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, March 1, 2009, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In a literary reversal as deadly serious as it is wickedly satiric, this novel by the acclaimed French-speaking African writer Abdourahman A.

Paperback:

9780803222625 | Bison Books, March 1, 2009, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: The Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth as it is formally titled, was a book constructed by Thomas Jefferson in the latter years of his life by cutting and pasting with a razor and glue numerous sections from the New Testament as extractions of the doctrine of Jesus...read more

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9781503032057 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 29, 2014, cover price $4.89 | also contains The Jefferson Bible | About this edition: The Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth as it is formally titled, was a book constructed by Thomas Jefferson in the latter years of his life by cutting and pasting with a razor and glue numerous sections from the New Testament as extractions of the doctrine of Jesus.
9781888451627, titled "The Jefferson Bible: By Thomas Jefferson" | Akashic Books, July 1, 2004, cover price $9.95

Blending elements of tall tale and wordplay, this zany Wild West saga follows three cowhands and their faithful canine companion as they race across high mountains and through deep canyons in pursuit of the one that got away.
By Percival L. Everett and Dirk Zimmer (illustrator)

School and Library:

9780395564370 | Clarion Books, March 1, 1992, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Three cowhands chase and corral ones in this zany book about the Wild West

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Product Description: “In addition to these three parts of the brain, we all have millions of brain cells…”read for more info

Paperback:

9781505955149 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 6, 2015, cover price $6.75 | About this edition: “In addition to these three parts of the brain, we all have millions of brain cells…”read for more info

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