{"product_id":"percival-everett-the-trees-2023-paperback","title":"Percival Everett: The Trees [2023] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett's \u003ci\u003eThe Trees \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Fiction Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Novel of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'He makes a revenge fantasy into a comic horror masterpiece.' -\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eJames\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and \u003ci\u003eErasure\u003c\/i\u003e, adapted into the Oscar-winning film \u003ci\u003eAmerican Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy.' - \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Everett, Percival","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50602122084691,"sku":"9781035036615","price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Good","offer_id":52634519470419,"sku":"XG81035036615","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":51247616655699,"sku":"XV81035036615","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Like New","offer_id":52518844531027,"sku":"XE81035036615","price":8.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/everett-percival-percival-everett-the-trees-2023-paperback-9781035036615-1149007838.jpg?v=1766331141","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/percival-everett-the-trees-2023-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}