Clever and thought- provoking, this is a memorable collection. As he drives the truck around town, he's threatened by hostile white Southerners, but manages to start a revolution of sorts as an increasing number of black Southerners co-opt the flag and fly it as their own. 21, 2001 Desperation outstrips the satire in Everetts latest exercise in narrative wizardry ( Glyph, 1999, etc. In one of the strongest stories, 'The Appropriation of Cultures,' a young, Ivy league–educated black guitarist living in South Carolina buys a pick-up truck with a Confederate flag sticker on it. ERASURE by Percival Everett RELEASE DATE: Sept. As he has in previous works, Everett strives to demythologize the American South. In 'Epigenesis,' a fly-fisherman catches a three-and-a-half-foot-long talking trout, which gives him advice that helps save his marriage. Through the last, skinniest gap.' Racial conflict filters into most of the 12 stories, which are told with a raw simplicity that stands in bracing contrast to forays into the surreal.

For these characters, passing is not physical rather, it is 'carried out through the act of writing' (26). After she tells him off, 'she slam the door and manage to squeeze the word nigger 'Out of Place': Reading Space in Percival Everetts Erasure on' (13). In 'Alluvial Deposits,' a hydrologist encounters a Colorado woman who refuses to give him permission to inspect an aquifer on her land. ) gives his own particular spin to tales of fly-fishing and the American South and West in his second short story collection. A History of the African American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond

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