Half An Inch Of Water
by Percival Everett
For the plainspoken men and women of these stories, small events trigger sudden shifts in which the ordinary becomes unfamiliar. Cowboys cavort and sheriffs shoot, certainly, but don't let the familiar trapping of your average Western fool you - these short stories are deeply philosophical meditations of the surreality of human existence.
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Author Biography
Percival Everett is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California and the author of nearly thirty books, including Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, Assumption, Erasure, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, and Glyph. He is the recipient of the Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, the Believer Book Award, and the 2006 PEN USA Center Award for Fiction. He has fly-fished the west for more than thirty years. He lives in Los Angeles.
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"[A] stark, shattering novel . . . Deeply moving." --The Wall Street Journal on Percival Everett by Virgil Russell "Percival Everett numbers among his very best." --Lydia Millet, Los Angeles Times on Percival Everett by Virgil Russell "Funny, insightful, and unpredictable . . . Everett is a master of his trade." --Time Out Chicago on Percival Everett by Virgil Russell
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