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Product Description: In Trout's Lie, Percival Everett explores the semantic relationship between sense and so-called nonsense―and questions whether either is actually possible.

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9781597099981 | Red Hen Pr, October 15, 2015, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In Trout's Lie, Percival Everett explores the semantic relationship between sense and so-called nonsense―and questions whether either is actually possible.

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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

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

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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

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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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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

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

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

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Product Description: These poems question the sounds that are meaning. They interrogate where meaning resides and whether they are in any way, rigidly or loosely, wed to the words that carry it. There is a nod toward logic and at once an acceptance of its limits...read more

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9781597094788 | Red Hen Pr, April 1, 2011, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: These poems question the sounds that are meaning.

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By Chris Abani and Percival L. Everett (other contributor)

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9781597094573, titled "There Are No Names for Red: Poetry & Paintings" | Red Hen Pr, April 1, 2010, cover price $17.95

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

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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

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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.

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

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Ishmael Kidder takes revenge by any means necessary when his eleven-year-old daughter is brutally murdered, in a novel that follows the gruesome reasoning and execution of revenge in a society that has lost a common moral ground.

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9781555974763 | Graywolf Pr, September 4, 2007, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Ishmael Kidder takes revenge by any means necessary when his eleven-year-old daughter is brutally murdered, in a novel that follows the gruesome reasoning and execution of revenge in a society that has lost a common moral ground.

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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.

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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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Product Description: Praise for Percival Everett: “. . . Artful and literate, Everett explores the philosophical, the metaphysical, the physical and the psychological boundaries of human life . . .” ―Terry D’Auray “. . . Everett achieves a primal sense of dislocation, forcing us to question how we determine the limits of the human ...read more

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9781597090575 | Red Hen Pr, January 1, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Praise for Percival Everett: “.

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A new novel by the author of Erasure explores issues of masculinity and homosexuality against a Western American backdrop, charting the effects of a fatal gay bashing incident on the lives of a father and son living in Wyoming.

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9781555974275 | Graywolf Pr, September 1, 2005, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Explores issues of masculinity and homosexuality against a Western American backdrop, charting the effects of a fatal gay bashing incident on the lives of a father and son living in Wyoming.

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

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While on a fishing expedition north of Denver, scientist Robert Hawks finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly fight over Native American treaty rights--a fight with repercussions for his own family history

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9781555972370 | Graywolf Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: While on a fishing expedition north of Denver, scientist Robert Hawks finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly fight over Native American treaty rights--a fight with repercussions for his own family history

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9780807083611 | Beacon Pr, May 15, 2003, cover price $19.00

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