Damned If I Do: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781555974114)

Damned If I Do is an exceptional new collection of short stories by Percival Everett, author of the highly praised and wickedly funny novel Erasure

People are just naturally hopeful, a term my grandfather used to tell me was more than occasionally interchangeable with stupid.

A cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen, and a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man ends up in a high-speed car chase with the cops after stealing the car that blocks the garbage bin at his apartment building. A stranger gets a job at a sandwich shop and fixes everything in sight: a manual mustard dispenser, a mouthful of crooked teeth, thirty-two parking tickets, and a sexual-identity problem.

Percival Everett is a master storyteller who ingeniously addresses issues of race and prejudice by simultaneously satirizing and celebrating the human condition.

Author: Percival Everett
ISBN-10: 1555974112
ISBN-13: 9781555974114
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2004
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.62h x 5.36w x 0.61d

Review Citation(s):
Black Issues Book Review 05/01/2005 pg. 68
Multicultural Review 06/01/2005 pg. 60
Black Issues Book Review 07/01/2005 pg. 33
Booklist 10/15/2004 pg. 389
Publishers Weekly 10/25/2004 pg. 27
Library Journal 11/15/2004 pg. 53
New York Times 02/20/2005 pg. 20