God's Country
Percival Everett
(Author)
Madison Smartt Bell
(Introduction by)
Description
The unlikely narrator through this tale of misadventures is one Curt Marder: gambler, drinker, cheat, and would-be womanizer. It's 1871, and he's lost his farm, his wife, and his dog to a band of marauding hooligans. With nothing to live on but a desire to recover what is rightfully his, Marder is forced to enlist the help of the best tracker in the West: a black man named Bubba.Product Details
Price
$18.00
Publisher
Beacon Press
Publish Date
May 15, 2003
Pages
232
Dimensions
5.45 X 8.06 X 0.55 inches | 0.58 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780807083635
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About the Author
Percival Everett is the author of eleven novels including the recent Erasure, which won the inaugural Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for fiction. He lives with his wife on a small ranch and teaches at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Reviews
"I loved this book. God's Country is like no western I've ever read before: a wonderfully strange and darkly hilarious brew of Kafka and GarcÌa Marquez, of Twilight Zone and F-Troop, with cameo appearances by Walt Whitman and George Custer thrown in for good measure. Percival Everett has written a terrific book, a Wild West road trip that challenges our assumptions about what human dignity really means."
--Bret Lott, author of Jewel: A Novel "An outrageously funny, alarmingly serious, highly enjoyable novel."
--Amanda Heller, The Boston Globe "This wild novel of the West is comic and fierce, turn by turn; it follows white and black and red men down their several paths through God's Country, and the reader tracks them with a sense of shocked delight."
--Nicholas Delbanco, author of What Remains "Mr. Everett is successful combining heart with rage. . . . The novel sears."
--David Bowman, The New York Times Book Review
--Bret Lott, author of Jewel: A Novel "An outrageously funny, alarmingly serious, highly enjoyable novel."
--Amanda Heller, The Boston Globe "This wild novel of the West is comic and fierce, turn by turn; it follows white and black and red men down their several paths through God's Country, and the reader tracks them with a sense of shocked delight."
--Nicholas Delbanco, author of What Remains "Mr. Everett is successful combining heart with rage. . . . The novel sears."
--David Bowman, The New York Times Book Review
