Book cover for Percival Everett by Virgil Russell

Percival Everett by Virgil Russell

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05 October 2023
288 pages
9781035036547
Imprint: Picador

Reviews

[A] stark, shattering novel… This meta-fiction is deeply moving.
[Percival Everett is] so humanely adept at getting to the heart of the human condition. . . . Everett has created much more than an exercise in unreliable narration, an exploration of the nature of language and the rationales we create to keep ourselves going as we grow old. By the conclusion, every sentence, indeed every word, has come to seem like a valuable key, not just to this puzzle of a novel, but to the meaning of existence.
A potent and thoughtful exploration of the bonds between fathers and children.
Within [a] narrative labyrinth, the novel is much more than an academic exercise . . . as it searches for the possibility of meaning in life as well as narrative and meditates on the process of aging and the inevitability of death