Erasure |
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| Author:
| Everett, Percival |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7868-8815-3 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2002 |
| Publisher: | Hyperion Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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Hailed by the New York Times as "both a treatise and a romp," a bold and brilliant novel of a man coming to terms with himself.
Now in paperback, this provocative tale within a tale details the life of avant-garde novelist and college professor Thelonious "Monk" Ellison. Monk, frustrated with his dismal book sales, composes a fierce parody of exploitative ghetto literature entitled My Pafology, which is greeted by critics as the work of a great new voice and garners him the success...
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Hailed by the New York Times as "both a treatise and a romp," a bold and brilliant novel of a man coming to terms with himself.
Now in paperback, this provocative tale within a tale details the life of avant-garde novelist and college professor Thelonious "Monk" Ellison. Monk, frustrated with his dismal book sales, composes a fierce parody of exploitative ghetto literature entitled My Pafology, which is greeted by critics as the work of a great new voice and garners him the success that he covets. Monk's impending struggle with his moral principles emerges as a revolutionary and riotous indictment of race and publishing in America.