Damned If I Do Percival Everett by Percival Everett 9781555974114, 1555974112 instant download after payment.

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 of A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid (A Novel), & provided annotations for Akashic’s publication of The Jefferson Bible. He is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California & lives in Los Angeles.