The Trees by Percival Everett

The Trees by Percival Everett

The Booker Prize-shortlisted satire of revenge and racial justice in America, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of James.

The genius of this novel is that in an age of reactionary populism it goes on the offensive, using popular forms to address a deep political issue as page-turning comic horror* The Guardian *
It's about time this extraordinary American writer got some credit this side of the Pond. * The Sunday Times *
He has made some audacious leaps over nearly 40 years of writing, but The Trees may be his most audacious. He makes a revenge fantasy into a comic horror masterpiece. He turns narrative stakes into moral stakes and raises them sky-high. Readers will laugh until it hurts. * Los Angeles Times *
The Trees feels powerfully prescient. * The Financial Times *
‘A powerful wake-up call, as well as an act of literary restitution.’ * Guardian *
‘Satire in the great tradition of Swift by way of South Park.’ * The Daily Telegraph *
‘The novelist has regularly exploded our models of genre and identity. In The Trees, he’s raising the stakes, confronting America’s legacy of lynching in a mystery at once hilarious and horrifying.’ * The New Yorker *
‘Everett deploys goofy humour and caricature in a high stakes, high concept crime novel in which America’s history of racial violence is itself the perpetrator.’ * Daily Mail *

Percival Everett is the author of over thirty published works, including Booker Prize-shortlisted James, Zulus, Erasure (adapted into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction), I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Assumption, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, Telephone, The Trees, and Dr. No. A Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Everett has won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, the Academy Award in Literature, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, and the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Fiction. In 2022, The Trees was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Everett lives in Los Angeles, CA, where he is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

SKU	NGR9781035036615
ISBN 13	9781035036615
ISBN 10	1035036614
Title	The Trees
Author	Percival Everett
Condition	New
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2023-10-05
Number of pages	352
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