<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Everett, Percival,]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Everett, Percival,]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/aclibrary/rss/search?query=Everett%2C%20Percival%2C&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:26:18 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[James]]></title><description><![CDATA["From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. While many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river's banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin...), Jim's agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light. Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a "cult literary icon" (Oprah Daily), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature"--Provided by publisher]]></description><link>https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S163C2434599</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S163C2434599</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Everett, Percival]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2434599163</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385550369/MC.GIF&amp;client=alamedacounty&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1385322570</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[James]]></title><description><![CDATA["From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. While many narrative set pieces of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river's banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin...), Jim's agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light. Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a "cult literary icon" (Oprah Daily), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature"-- Provided by publisher]]></description><link>https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S163C2440029</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S163C2440029</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Everett, Percival]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2440029163</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385550376/MC.GIF&amp;client=alamedacounty&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1385317504</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Trees]]></title><description><![CDATA[After a series of brutal murders in a rural Mississippi town, investigators arrive and discover a large number of similar cases that all have roots in the past]]></description><link>https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S163C2379325</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S163C2379325</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Everett, Percival]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2379325163</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781644450642/MC.GIF&amp;client=alamedacounty&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1268220252</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Erasure]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thelonius "Monk" Ellison is an erudite, accomplished but 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." Meanwhile, Monk struggles with real family tragedies—his aged mother is fast succumbing to Alzheimer’s, and he still grapples with the reverberations of his father’s suicide seven years before. In his rage and despair, Monk dashes off a novel meant to be an indictment of Juanita Mae Jenkins’s bestseller. He doesn’t intend for My Pafology to be published, let alone taken seriously, but it is—under the pseudonym Stagg R. Leigh—and soon it becomes the Next Big Thing. How Monk deals with the personal and professional fallout galvanizes this audacious, hysterical, and quietly devastating novel.--Publisher's description]]></description><link>https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S163C2436740</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S163C2436740</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Everett, Percival]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2436740163</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781555975999/MC.GIF&amp;client=alamedacounty&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=706021549</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dr. No]]></title><description><![CDATA["The protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means "nothing" in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for 'nothing.') He is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of study is nothing, and he does nothing about it. This makes him the perfect partner for the aspiring villain John Sill, who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal, well, not gold bars but a shoebox containing nothing. Once he controls nothing he'll proceed with a dastardly plan to turn a Massachusetts town into nothing. Or so he thinks. With the help of the brainy and brainwashed astrophysicist-turned-henchwoman Eigen Vector, our professor tries to foil the villain while remaining in his employ. In the process, Wala Kitu learns that Sill's desire to become a literal Bond villain originated in some real all-American villainy related to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. As Sill says, 'Professor, think of it this way. This country has never given anything to us and it never will. We have given everything to it. I think it's time we gave nothing back.'"--Amazon.com]]></description><link>https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S163C2410641</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S163C2410641</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Everett, Percival]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2410641163</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781644452080/MC.GIF&amp;client=alamedacounty&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1350098761</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damned If I Do]]></title><link>https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S163C1726073</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S163C1726073</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Everett, Percival]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1726073163</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Stories</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781555974114/MC.GIF&amp;client=alamedacounty&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sonnets for A Missing Key]]></title><description><![CDATA["Do keys matter? Do they speak to different parts of us? Inspired by the Preludes of Chopin and the piano solos of Art Tatum, these experimental sonnets seek to question timbre and tone. That's bullshit. They are just sonnets"-- Provided by publisher]]></description><link>https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S163C2444245</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S163C2444245</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Everett, Percival]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2444245163</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>And Some Others</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781636281667/MC.GIF&amp;client=alamedacounty&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1417600500</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[James]]></title><description><![CDATA[A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. While many narrative set pieces of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river's banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin?), Jim's agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light]]></description><link>https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S163C2440098</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S163C2440098</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Everett, Percival]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2440098163</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593821268/MC.GIF&amp;client=alamedacounty&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1423274226</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dr. No]]></title><description><![CDATA[A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star keeps rising The protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means "nothing" in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for "nothing.") He is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of study is nothing, and he does nothing about it. This makes him the perfect partner for the aspiring villain John Sill, who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal, well, not gold bars but a shoebox containing nothing. Once he controls nothing he'll proceed with a dastardly plan to turn a Massachusetts town into nothing. Or so he thinks. With the help of the brainy and brainwashed astrophysicist-turned-henchwoman Eigen Vector, our professor tries to foil the villain while remaining in his employ. In the process, Wala Kitu learns that Sill's desire to become a literal Bond villain originated in some real all-American villainy related to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. As Sill says, "Professor, think of it this way. This country has never given anything to us and it never will. We have given everything to it. I think it's time we gave nothing back."--Provided by publisher]]></description><link>https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S163C2412884</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S163C2412884</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Everett, Percival]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2412884163</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798765065716/MC.GIF&amp;client=alamedacounty&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Trees]]></title><description><![CDATA[When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive to investigate a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, 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. The detectives suspect that these are killings of retribution, but discover that eerily similar murders are taking place all over the country. As the bodies pile up, the MBI detectives uncover a history that refuses to be buried. -- adapted from back cover]]></description><link>https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S163C2381247</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S163C2381247</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Everett, Percival]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2381247163</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>[a Novel]</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781644451564/MC.GIF&amp;client=alamedacounty&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[American Fiction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Monk is a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment that profits from Black entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, he uses a pen name to write an outlandish Black book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain]]></description><link>https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S163C2435470</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S163C2435470</guid><category><![CDATA[BLURAY]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://aclibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2435470163</comments><format>BLURAY</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/MC.GIF&amp;client=alamedacounty&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=&amp;upc=0883929824151</image_url></item></channel></rss>