Percival Everett

Broschiertes Buch

I Am Not Sidney Poitier

A Novel [LP 16 Pt Edition]

Beschreibung

Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man in an absurd country. The sudden death of his mother orphans him at age eleven, leaving him with an unfortunate name, an uncanny resemblance to the famous actor, and, perhaps more fortunate, a staggering number of shares in the Turner Broadcasting Corporation. Percival Everett's hilarious new novel foll...

Autor

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. His novel Erasure has been adapted into the major film American Fiction, which was nominated for five Academy Awards. Everett lives in Los Angeles, CA, where he is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ReadHowYouWant
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781038774149
• ISBN-10: 1038774144
• Artikelnr.: 71860008