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Damned if I do : stories by Percival L. Everett, Irenosen Okojie is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Damned if I do : stories about?
An exceptional new collection of short stories by Percival Everett, author of the highly praised & wickedly funny novel Erasure People are just naturally hopeful, a term my grandfather used to tell me was more than occasionally interchangeable with stupid. An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly-fisherman, & even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. Two men are faced with a horse who is wildly afraid of the dark. 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 & fixes everything in sight: a manual mustard dispenser, a mouth full of crooked teeth, thirty-twoparking tickets, & a sexual identity problem. The author of several critically acclaimed works of fiction, most recently Erasure, Percival Everett is a master storyteller who ingeniously addresses issues of race & prejudice by simultaneously satirizing & celebrating the human condition.PERCIVAL EVERETT is the author of many novels, among them The Water Cure, Erasure, & Glyph. He is the author of the poetry collection Abstraktion und Einfühlung, the coauthor
Who reads Damned if I do : stories?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Percival L. Everett, Irenosen Okojie
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781555974114
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories
- Rating
- 3.88 / 5 (244 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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