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    Erasure: A Novel
    Erasure: A Novel
    Erasure: A Novel
    Audiobook8 hours

    Erasure: A Novel

    Written by Percival Everett

    Narrated by Sean Crisden

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and writing

    Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines of the literary establishment as he watches the meteoric success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, a first novel by a woman who once visited "some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days." Meanwhile, Monk struggles with real family tragedies-his aged mother is fast succumbing to Alzheimer's, and he still grapples with the reverberations of his father's suicide seven years before.

    In his rage and despair, Monk dashes off a novel meant to be an indictment of Juanita Mae Jenkins's bestseller. He doesn't intend for My Pafology to be published, let alone taken seriously, but it is-under the pseudonym Stagg R. Leigh-and soon it becomes the Next Big Thing. How Monk deals with the personal and professional fallout galvanizes this audacious, hysterical, and quietly devastating novel.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateDec 26, 2023
    ISBN9798350860405
    Erasure: A Novel
    Author

    Percival Everett

    Percival Everett is the author of more than twenty books. He is the recipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction. He teaches at the University of Southern California and lives outside Los Angeles.

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    • 4/5
      Read the book for the first time, around the time it came out, the audiobook enhances the story itself.

      The book within the book is read by a male, then later - a female, a fine example of how, one sees a narrative, dependent upon who, delivers the narrative.
    • 5/5
      Truly amazing book! Great audio recording too! Fabulous! Love it!
    • 5/5
      Stunning. The saddest part of my spring was finishing this book.
    • 5/5
      Classic Percival Everett. Great characters and story, but the ending doesn’t tie all the loose ends up, which is what happens in real life.
    • 5/5
      An awesome book! The story was amazingly told. The narrator did an awesome job!
    • 5/5
      Absolutely loved this book it is a great read! I love how Everett was able to write a book within a book and make me believe I was reading from two different authors.
    • 3/5
      This is a brilliant, competent, clear and entertaining narration of the book. Like many, I was inspired to listen to this book after watching its movie adaptation, American Fiction. It is that rare case that the movie stands as a superb adaptation of a terrific book in both the ways in which it is faithful to the book and the ways in which it strays from it. The book, as is typical of the medium, is much more contemplative and deeper than the movie. This is a wonderful audio book, and non one will regret listening to it through.