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Author: Percival EverettModern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 5th August 2021 by Faber & Faber in the United Kingdom.Paperback / softback | 304 pages 129mm x 198m m x 23mm | 250g Adapted into the Oscar-nominated major motion picture, American Fiction.Truly brilliant. Los Angeles Review of BooksA classic. The TimesA remarkable novel. Wall Street JournalSublime . . . brilliant, uproarious . . . A wise novel about how we live. Brandon Taylor With your book sales at an all-time low, your family falling apart, and your agent telling you youre not black enough, whats an author to do? Thelonius Monk Ellison has the answer. Or does he . . . ? Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for FictionOne of the most original and forceful novels to have emerged from America in years. TLSA furious whirl of a book. It made me howl with laughter . . . and rage, and sorrow, and affinity. Lisa McInerneySeminal doesnt even come close. This novel is Everett at his finest, full of trademark protest, humanity and incisive humour, all wrapped up in one hell of a story. Courttia NewlandHilarious. . . Everett is a first-rate word wrangler. Nicholas Lezard, Guardian Show more