A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as Told to Percival Everett James Kincaid (A Novel) [Paperback]

The storys epistolary format allows novelist Everett and literary theorist Kincaid to write in a chorus of richly individuated voices, by turnsand often simultaneouslysardonic, hysterical, obsequious, and threatening, aware of their own hypocrisies but unwilling to renounce them. The result is a truly funny send-up of the corrupt politics of academe, the publishing industry, and politics, as well as a subtle but biting critique of racial ideology. We can only hope that fine literary excursions such as this Everett and Kincaid novel will help demolish all ghettos, real and symbolic. This is the funniest novel Ive read in years! I had trouble reading it because I had to stop to laugh out loud so often. Turns out, this batch of the most anticipated releases is as exciting as ever. King of literary satire Percival Everett has a reissue our Executive Director of Content is looking forward to . . . Yes, I am spending a most anticipated selection on a reissue, but what a reissue and what timing. Percival Everett is at the top of his game with the adaptation of