<?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/princetonlibrary/rss/search?query=%22Everett%2C%20Percival%22&amp;searchType=author&amp;page=2&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:32:57 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[James]]></title><description><![CDATA[Describes the events of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of the enslaved Jim, who decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island after learning he is to be sold to a man in New Orleans.]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1468410</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1468410</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://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1468410057</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=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[James]]></title><description><![CDATA[NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, NPR, THE SEATTLE TIMES, ELLE, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION,AND OPRAH DAILY  A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view • From the "literary icon" ( Oprah Daily ) and Pulitzer Prize Finalist whose novel  Erasure  is the basis for Cord Jefferson's critically acclaimed film  American Fiction   " If you liked  Demon Copperhead,  by Barbara Kingsolver, read J ames,  by Percival Everett" - The Washington Post   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. Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a "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.]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1470389</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1470389</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Everett, Percival]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1470389057</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=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dr. No]]></title><description><![CDATA[A professor of mathematics who claims to be an expert at nothing partners with an aspiring villain who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal a shoebox containing nothing, with the help of a brainwashed astrophysicist.]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1455953</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1455953</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://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1455953057</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=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dr. No]]></title><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1457078</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1457078</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Everett, Percival]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1457078057</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781644451915/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&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, 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 soon discover that eerily similar murders are taking place all over the country. Something truly strange is afoot. As the bodies pile up, the MBI detectives seek answers from a local root doctor who has been documenting every lynching in the country for years, uncovering a history that refuses to be buried....Everett takes direct aim at racism and police violence, and does so in fast-paced style that ensures the reader can't look away." --publisher's website.]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1448013</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1448013</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://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1448013057</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=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telephone]]></title><description><![CDATA["Zach Wells, a laconic geolist-slash-paleobiologist, has the trappings of a comfortable life, yet is not contented. He's expert in the geological history of a cave in the Grand Canyon, but less so where his wife and daughter are concerned. And when his daughter develops unusual vision problems and has a seizure, the world of this family of three crumbles. Powerless in the face of his daughter's slow deterioration, Wells finds a note asking for help tucked into a jacket he's ordered online, and sets off on a quixotic rescue mission."--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1419173</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1419173</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Everett, Percival]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1419173057</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781644450222/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[So Much Blue]]></title><description><![CDATA["Kevin Pace's latest painting, like so much of his past, remains a secret. Ten years ago, he had an affair with a young watercolorist in Paris. And in the late 1970s, he traveled to El Salvador to search  for his best friend's brother, a minor drug dealer gone missing in a country on the verge of war. When the past begins to resurface, Kevin struggles to justify the sacrifices he's made for his art and the secrets he's kept from his wife and family" -- Page [4] of cover.]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1395881</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1395881</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Everett, Percival]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1395881057</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781555977825/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Percival Everett by Virgil Russell]]></title><description><![CDATA["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? Let's simplify: a woman seeks an apprenticeship with a painter, claiming to be his long-lost daughter. A contractor-for-hire named Murphy can't distinguish between the two brothers who employ him. And in Murphy's troubled dreams, Nat Turner imagines the life of William Styron. These narratives twist together with anecdotes from the nursing home, each building on the other until they crest in a wild, outlandish excursion of the inmates led by the father. Anchoring these shifting plotlines is a running commentary between father and son that sheds doubt on the truthfulness of each story. Because, after all, what narrator can we ever trust? Not only is Percival Everett by Virgil Russell a powerful, compassionate meditation on old age and its humiliations, it is an ingenious culmination of Everett's recurring preoccupations. All of his prior work, his metaphysical and philosophical inquiries, his investigations into the nature of narrative, have led to this masterful book. Percival Everett has never been more cunning, more brilliant and subversive, than he is in this, his most important and elusive novel to date."--www.amazon.com]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1453627</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1453627</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Everett, Percival]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1453627057</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781555976347/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assumption]]></title><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1298273</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1298273</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Everett, Percival]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1298273057</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781555975982/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Am Not Sidney Poitier]]></title><description><![CDATA[The novel follows the life of a young man named Not Sidney Poitier, after he was orphaned at age eleven and inherited a staggering number of shares in the Turner Broadcasting Corporation.]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1471065</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1471065</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Everett, Percival]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1471065057</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781555975272/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Erasure]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thelonius "Monk" Ellison is an erudite, accomplished but seldom-read author who insists on writing obscure literary papers rather than the so-called "ghetto prose" that would make him a commercial success. He finally succumbs to temptation after seeing the Oberlin-educated author of We's Lives in da Ghetto during her appearance on a talk show, firing back with a parody called My Pafology, which he submits to his startled agent under the gangsta pseudonym of Stagg R. Leigh. Ellison quickly finds himself with a six-figure advance from a major house, a multimillion-dollar offer for the movie rights and a monster bestseller on his hands. The money helps with a family crisis, allowing Ellison to care for his widowed mother as she drifts into the fog of Alzheimer's, but it doesn't ease the pain after his sister, a physician, is shot by right-wing fanatics for performing abortions. The dark side of wealth surfaces when both the movie mogul and talk-show host demand to meet the nonexistent Leigh, forcing Ellison to don a disguise and invent a sullen, enigmatic character to meet the demands of the market.]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1156541</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1156541</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://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1156541057</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781584650904/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assumption]]></title><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1472662</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1472662</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Everett, Percival]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1472662057</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781555970383/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Erasure]]></title><description><![CDATA[Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and writing 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.]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1468335</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1468335</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Everett, Percival]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1468335057</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9798350860412/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Erasure]]></title><description><![CDATA[Percival Everett's Erasure is a blistering satire about race and writing 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.]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1468055</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1468055</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Everett, Percival]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1468055057</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781555970390/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[James]]></title><description><![CDATA[NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, NPR, THE SEATTLE TIMES, ELLE, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION,AND OPRAH DAILY  A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of  Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view • From the "literary icon" ( Oprah Daily ) and Pulitzer Prize Finalist whose novel  Erasure  is the basis for Cord Jefferson's critically acclaimed film  American Fiction   " If you liked  Demon Copperhead,  by Barbara Kingsolver, read J ames,  by Percival Everett" - The Washington Post   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. Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a "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.]]></description><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1469786</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1469786</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Everett, Percival]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Invalid Date</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1469786057</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=pricp&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://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1471135</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1471135</guid><category><![CDATA[BLURAY]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1471135057</comments><format>BLURAY</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=&amp;upc=883929824151</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selected Shorts]]></title><link>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1173401</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S57C1173401</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://princetonlibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1173401057</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>Volume XVI, Fictions for Our Times [a Celebration of the Short Story]</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780971921801/MC.GIF&amp;client=pricp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>