Assumption, Percival Everett
Assumption, Percival Everett
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Assumption
A Novel

Author: Percival Everett

Narrator: Ron Butler

Unabridged: 6 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/29/2024

Synopsis

A baffling triptych of murder mysteries by the author of I Am Not Sidney Poitier

Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman's murderer. But at the crime scene, his are the only footprints leading up to and away from her door. Something is amiss, and even his mother knows it. As other cases pile up, Ogden gives chase, pursuing flimsy leads for even flimsier reasons. His hunt leads him from the seamier side of Denver to a hippie commune as he seeks the puzzling solution.

In Assumption, his follow-up to the wickedly funny I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Percival Everett is in top form as he once again upends our expectations about characters, plot, race, and meaning. A wild ride to the heart of a baffling mystery, Assumption is a literary thriller like no other.

About Percival Everett

Percival Everett is a literary shapeshifter, an author whose work defies genre and expectation. Born in 1956, he has carved out a career as one of America’s most daring and intellectually playful writers, blending satire, philosophy, and social critique across novels, short stories, and poetry. With a bibliography spanning dozens of books-including Erasure, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, and The Trees, a Pulitzer Prize finalist-Everett tackles race, identity, and the absurdities of modern life with razor-sharp wit and profound depth.

A professor of English at the University of Southern California, Everett is also an accomplished painter, musician, and horse trainer, embodying the restless curiosity that defines his fiction. His work, often compared to that of Ralph Ellison and Thomas Pynchon, resists easy categorization, making him one of contemporary literature’s most unpredictable and essential voices.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lark on January 30, 2019

My fourth Percival Everett novel and all I can think is how different each one of them has been, how surprising, how delightfully snookered by this book I'm feeling right now, in the best way possible. A wonderful read.......more

Goodreads review by Carl on May 16, 2012

I don’t know how Percival Everett made it on to recommended reading list, but I downloaded Assumptions and launched into what seemed like a well-done, standard, diverting mystery. I continued to think that’s what I had in my hands right through the first novella-length account of Deputy Ogden Walker......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on November 22, 2023

Rating : 3.85 Having read two of his latest stories of which both would be considered literature, I was ill prepared for a story about a small town Sheriff in NM. As a USC professor of Literature and prolific black author, the only consistency with all three are black central characters which shows Ev......more

Goodreads review by Betsy on December 15, 2017

I love Percival Everett's work, but I didn't understand this book. It's three crime stories that don't have connecting tissue except for they all involve Deputy Ogden Walker. The stories borrow and repurpose some material from at least one short story in Half an Inch of Water, except they take place......more

Goodreads review by Albert on October 08, 2011

Imagine, you're a fish on a hook. You swim away, you feel yourself being reeled in--you get some slack and feel as if you're getting away again. It's a slow, long process and the truth is that no one knows, not the fisherman and not yourself how it will all turn out. You are the fish. Percival Evere......more

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