Assumption: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (553 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005VDBX6G |
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| Number of Pages | : | 456 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Percival Everett is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and the author of eighteen novels, including I Am Not Sidney Poitier, The Water Cure, Wounded, Erasure, and Glyph.
"A bad feeling about something but he couldn't nail it down" D. Cloyce Smith Although Percival Everett's cynical and satirical books often explore race (especially America's obsession with it), class, and the rural-urban divide, they are never alike. His previous novels have scattered across genres: Western, urban fiction, social realism, farce, and more. He embraces the formulae of wh. Read-A-Lot said Please READ the book before reading reviews, you will be rewarded!. If you read reviews before reading the book, you will be duly armed and may miss this wonderful ride. Anytime a work of fiction makes you think about what you've read long after you have finished, it has to be deemed a success. The book is three separate stories, but all linked by the same characters and setti. On the Fence at first; now decided I just finished reading "Assumption" and came back to read the reviews of others because the conclusion left me a bit perplexed. This is the only book I've read by the author; I don't have any previous bias towards him. I enjoyed the first two of the three parts of the book. All three parts follow deputy Ogden
Everett's storytelling can't be oversold; this is superbly written, crisp and quick-paced, punctuated with pools of simply gorgeous prose. I'd encourage anyone with a taste in good, thought-provoking writing to investigate.” Barbara Hoffert, Prepub Alert, Library Journal“Everett, who has put his uniquely wacky spin on genres from Greek myths to westerns, does the same for crime fiction in his effective follow-up to I Am Not Sidney Poitier. Above all, it's damn funny.” Bookslut on I Am Not Sidney Poitier. Not only is the novel smart and without a trace of pretentiousness, it shows Everett as a novelist at the height of his narrative a
Something is amiss, and even his mother knows it. A baffling triptych of murder mysteries by the author of I Am Not Sidney PoitierOgden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman's murderer. In Assumption, his follow-up to the wickedly funny I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Percival Everett is in top form as he once again upends our expectations about characters, plot, race, and meaning. His hunt leads him from the seamier side of Denver to a hippie commune as he seeks the puzzling solution. A wild ride to the heart of a baffling mystery, Assumption is a literary thriller like no other.. As other cases pile up, Ogden gives chase, pursuing flimsy leads for even flimsier reasons. But at the crime scene, his are the only footprints leading up to and away from her door