Description
| Product ID: | 9781035036615 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Trees |
| Authors: | Author: Percival Everett |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The Booker Prize-shortlisted satire of revenge and racial justice in America. <p><b>A <i>Sunday Times</i> Fiction Book of the Year</b><br><b>Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction</b><br><b>A <i>Sunday Times</i> Novel of the Year<br><br>Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett's <i>The Trees </i>is a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America.<br><br>'He makes a revenge fantasy into a comic horror masterpiece.’ –<i> Los Angeles Times</i></b><br><br>When the rural town of Money, Mississippi is beset by a series of brutal murders, a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, only to be met with resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a mob of racist white townsfolk. This, they expect. Less predictable, however, is the second corpse which appears at each crime scene: that of a man resembling Emmett Till, the young Black boy lynched in the same town sixty-five years earlier.<br><br>As a spate of copycat killings spreads across the country, what begins as a murder investigation soon becomes a journey into the soul of America’s violent past.<br><br><b>‘Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy.’ - <i>The New York Times</i></b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-10-05 |