Damned If I Do Stories

by Everett, Percival

• ISBN13: 9781555974114
• ISBN10: 1555974112
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• Publisher: Graywolf Pr

Summary

An exceptional new collection of short stories by Percival Everett, author of the highly praised and wickedly funny novel Erasure People are just naturally hopeful, a term my grandfather used to tell me was more than occasionally interchangeable with stupid. A cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen, and a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man ends up in a high-speed car chase with the cops after stealing the car that blocks the garbage bin at his apartment building. A stranger gets a job at a sandwich shop and fixes everything in sight: a manual mustard dispenser, a mouthful of crooked teeth, thirty-two parking tickets, and a sexual-identity problem. Percival Everett is a master storyteller who ingeniously addresses issues of race and prejudice by simultaneously satirizing and celebrating the human condition.

Author Biography

Percival Everett is a professor of English at the University of Southern California.

Table of Contents

The fix	p. 3
House	p. 25
Alluvial deposits	p. 39
True romance	p. 61
Age would be that does	p. 79
The appropriation of cultures	p. 91
Warm and nicely buried	p. 105
Afraid of the dark	p. 129
Epigenesis	p. 147
The devolution of nuclear associability	p. 159
The last heat of summer	p. 165
Randall Randall	p. 185
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