Percival Everett by Virgil Russell

“Anything we take for granted, Mr. Everett means to show us, may turn out to be a lie.” —Wall Street Journal A story inside a story inside a story. A man visits his aging father in a nursing home, where his father writes the novel he imagines his son would write. Or is it the novel that the son imagines his father would imagine, if he were to imagine the kind of novel the son would write? Let’s simplify: a woman seeks an apprenticeship with a painter, claiming to be his long-lost daughter. A contractor-for-hire named Murphy can’t distinguish between the two brothers who employ him. And in Murphy’s troubled dreams, Nat Turner imagines the life of William Styron. These narratives twist together with anecdotes from the nursing home, each building on the other until they crest in a wild, outlandish excursion of the inmates led by the father. Anchoring these shifting plotlines is a running commentary between father and son that sheds doubt on the truthfulness of each story. Be...

Author: Everett Percival
Year of publication: 2013
Genre: Modern prose
Number of pages: 197
Reading time: 3 h. 17 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
Language: english
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