Erasure /
Everett, Percival,
Erasure / Percival Everett. - 265 pages 21 cm
new book 2024 fall.
1. Marriage: Creating the Jewish Family -- 2. Bringing Order to the Jewish Family -- 3. Marital Breakdown and Divorce -- 4. Kritut: Negotiating the Divorce Agreement and Unresolved Issues -- 5. Quandaries of Family Reform: Old Foes, New Alliances.
Thelonius "Monk" Ellison is an erudite, accomplished but seldom-read author who insists on writing obscure literary papers rather than the so-called "ghetto prose" that would make him a commercial success. He finally succumbs to temptation after seeing the Oberlin-educated author of We's Lives in da Ghetto during her appearance on a talk show, firing back with a parody called My Pafology, which he submits to his startled agent under the gangsta pseudonym of Stagg R. Leigh. Ellison quickly finds himself with a six-figure advance from a major house, a multimillion-dollar offer for the movie rights and a monster bestseller on his hands. The money helps with a family crisis, allowing Ellison to care for his widowed mother as she drifts into the fog of Alzheimer's, but it doesn't ease the pain after his sister, a physician, is shot by right-wing fanatics for performing abortions. The dark side of wealth surfaces when both the movie mogul and talk-show host demand to meet the nonexistent Leigh, forcing Ellison to don a disguise and invent a sullen, enigmatic character to meet the demands of the market.
9781555975999 1555975992
2011990487
Fiction--Authorship--Fiction
African American men--Fiction
Mothers and sons--Fiction
Novelists--Fiction
Washington (D.C.)--Fiction
Psychological fiction.
Fiction.
PS3555.V34 / E737 2001
813.6
Erasure / Percival Everett. - 265 pages 21 cm
new book 2024 fall.
1. Marriage: Creating the Jewish Family -- 2. Bringing Order to the Jewish Family -- 3. Marital Breakdown and Divorce -- 4. Kritut: Negotiating the Divorce Agreement and Unresolved Issues -- 5. Quandaries of Family Reform: Old Foes, New Alliances.
Thelonius "Monk" Ellison is an erudite, accomplished but seldom-read author who insists on writing obscure literary papers rather than the so-called "ghetto prose" that would make him a commercial success. He finally succumbs to temptation after seeing the Oberlin-educated author of We's Lives in da Ghetto during her appearance on a talk show, firing back with a parody called My Pafology, which he submits to his startled agent under the gangsta pseudonym of Stagg R. Leigh. Ellison quickly finds himself with a six-figure advance from a major house, a multimillion-dollar offer for the movie rights and a monster bestseller on his hands. The money helps with a family crisis, allowing Ellison to care for his widowed mother as she drifts into the fog of Alzheimer's, but it doesn't ease the pain after his sister, a physician, is shot by right-wing fanatics for performing abortions. The dark side of wealth surfaces when both the movie mogul and talk-show host demand to meet the nonexistent Leigh, forcing Ellison to don a disguise and invent a sullen, enigmatic character to meet the demands of the market.
9781555975999 1555975992
2011990487
Fiction--Authorship--Fiction
African American men--Fiction
Mothers and sons--Fiction
Novelists--Fiction
Washington (D.C.)--Fiction
Psychological fiction.
Fiction.
PS3555.V34 / E737 2001
813.6