The Resource Erasure : a novel, Percival Everett
Erasure : a novel, Percival Everett
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- Summary
- "Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and an African American, he is offended and angered by the success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, the exploitative debut novel of a young, middle-class black woman who once visited "some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days." Hailed as an authentic representation of the African American experience, the book is a national bestseller and its author feted on the Kenya Dunston television show. The book's success rankles all the more as Monk's own most recent novel has just notched its seventh rejection." "Even as his career as a writer appears to have stalled, Monk finds himself coping with changes in his personal life. In need of distraction from old memories, new responsibilities, and his professional stagnation, Monk composes, in a heat of inspiration and energy, a fierce parody of the sort of exploitative, ghetto wanna-be lit represented by We's Lives in Da Ghetto." "But when his agent sends this literary indictment (included here in its entirety) out to publishers, it is greeted as an authentic new voice of black America. Monk - or his pseudonymous alter ego, Stagg R. Leigh - is offered money, fame, success beyond anything he has known. And as demand begins to build for meetings with and appearances by Leigh, Monk is faced with a whole new set of problems."--BOOK JACKET
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Erasure : a novel
- Title
- Erasure
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Percival Everett
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and an African American, he is offended and angered by the success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, the exploitative debut novel of a young, middle-class black woman who once visited "some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days." Hailed as an authentic representation of the African American experience, the book is a national bestseller and its author feted on the Kenya Dunston television show. The book's success rankles all the more as Monk's own most recent novel has just notched its seventh rejection." "Even as his career as a writer appears to have stalled, Monk finds himself coping with changes in his personal life. In need of distraction from old memories, new responsibilities, and his professional stagnation, Monk composes, in a heat of inspiration and energy, a fierce parody of the sort of exploitative, ghetto wanna-be lit represented by We's Lives in Da Ghetto." "But when his agent sends this literary indictment (included here in its entirety) out to publishers, it is greeted as an authentic new voice of black America. Monk - or his pseudonymous alter ego, Stagg R. Leigh - is offered money, fame, success beyond anything he has known. And as demand begins to build for meetings with and appearances by Leigh, Monk is faced with a whole new set of problems."--BOOK JACKET
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Everett, Percival
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3555.V34
- LC item number
- E73 2001
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Fiction
- African American men
- Washington (D.C.)
- Mothers and sons
- Novelists
- Label
- Erasure : a novel, Percival Everett
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 46936048
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 265 pages
- Isbn
- 9781584651604
- Isbn Type
- (paper : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2001002535
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- Erasure : a novel, Percival Everett
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 46936048
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 265 pages
- Isbn
- 9781584651604
- Isbn Type
- (paper : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2001002535
- Media category
- unmediated
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