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<p><P>An exceptional new collection of short stories by Percival Everett, author of the highly praised and wickedly funny novel <i>Erasure</i><P><i>People are just naturally hopeful, a term my grandfather used to tell me was more than occasionally interchangeable with stupid.</i><P>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&#58; a manual mustard dispenser, a mouthful of crooked teeth, thirty-two parking tickets, and a sexual-identity problem.<P>Percival Everett is a master storyteller who ingeniously addresses issues of race and prejudice by simultaneously satirizing and celebrating the human condition.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Novelist and satirist Everett (Erasure; A History of the African American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond) gives his own particular spin to tales of fly-fishing and the American South and West in his second short story collection. In "Alluvial Deposits," a hydro

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Author

Everett, Percival L

Publisher

Saint Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781555974114

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction

Rating

3.88 / 5 (244 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14