Percival Everett

Gebundenes Buch

The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson of Roanoke, Va, 1843

Annotated from the Library of John C. Calhoun

Beschreibung

Slave masters were people, too. From recent texts and films we have learned that slavery was a bad thing. Colonel Hap Thompson was simply a man about his business. His business was training other people.

Autor

PERCIVAL EVERETT is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC. His most recent novels include National Book Award winner James, Dr. No (finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction and winner of the PEN/ Jean Stein Book Award), The Trees (finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction), Telephone (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), So Much Blue, Erasure, and I Am Not Sidney Poitier. His most recent poetry collections include Sonnets for a Missing Key, The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson (winner of the 2020 IPPY Award in Most Original Concept) and Trout’s Lie. He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award and The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University. American Fiction, the feature film based on his novel Erasure, was released in 2023 and was awarded the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer Danzy Senna, and their children.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Red Hen Press
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 148mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 86g
• ISBN-13: 9781597096287
• ISBN-10: 1597096288
• Artikelnr.: 50507182