American Desert

By: Percival Everett

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Paperback | 6 April 2006 | Edition Number 1

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'One of America's most intelligent and imaginative satirists . Not only funny but consistently compelling, fiercely written and ultimately moving.' - Daily Telegraph (UK)

Theodore Street is driving towards the ocean where he plans to drown himself. But on the way he is hit by a van and he sails through the windscreen, his head sliced from his body. At this funeral days later, he sits up in his coffin, apparently resurrected. Theodore becomes an object of derision and morbid curiosity to the press, a prized speciman for scientists and Satan incarnate to an obscure religious cult deep in the desert.

Fascinating, surreal and wildly satirical, Percival Everett sends up the press, religion, UFOs and the military, and offers a meditation on what it is to be alive.

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"'One of America's most intelligent and imaginative satirists... Not only funny but consistently compelling, fiercely written and ultimately moving.' Patrick Ness, Daily Telegraph 'A life - affirming tale, snappily told and unexpectedly tender.' Daily Mail"

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