Faber & Faber

American Desert: Percival Everett

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Synopsis:

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 cleanly from his body. At his funeral days later, he sits up in his coffin, apparently resurrected. Alternately feted and feared as the Second Coming and the Anti-Christ, Theodore becomes an object of derision and morbid curiosity to the press, a prized specimen 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 retrospection, forgiveness - and ultimately what it is to be alive.

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Fiction

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General Fiction

Genres & Themes:

America; American Fiction; Celebrity; Satire