James (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Percival Everett

Random House Digital, Inc.

James

Doubleday: New York

<p>Thelonious Ellison is an erudite but seldom-read author who writes avant-garde fiction rather than more commercially successful "ghetto" prose. However, he relents, and his parody - "My Pafology" - receives a six-figure advance and Hollywood interest. It also threatens to change his life forever.</p>

Erasure

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Faber&Faber

<p>Avant-garde novelist and college professor, woodworker, and fly fisherman - Thelonious Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and an African American he is offended and angered by the success of 'We's Lives in Da Getto'.</p>

With this inventive and humorous novel, Percival Everett has created his unlikeliest hero to date. Mute by choice, baby Ralph is able to ponder the worth (not much) of Derrida and Barthes. On discovery of his talents, a host of people are soon eager for a stake in this child prodigy.

Glyph

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.

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