American Desert

American Desert by Percival Everett


ISBN
9780571226610
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
304
Dimensions
135 x 215mm

As 'American Desert' opens, the novel's hero, Theodore Street, is driving towards the ocean, where he plans to walk into the waves and drown himself. But on his way, he is hit headlong by an oncoming van. He sails through the windshield, his head is sliced cleanly from his body, his suicidal plans unwittingly thwarted. At his funeral three days later, Theodore sits up in his coffin, apparently resurrected. The mourners are horrified, and the story makes headlines throughout the world.

Alternately feted and feared as the Second Coming and the Anti-Christ, Theodore becomes a source of embarrassment to his daughter, 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. In this fascinating, surreal and wildly satirical novel, internationally acclaimed author Percival Everett wrestles with the assumptions of a culture whose priorities are out of whack, sending up the press, religion, UFOs and the military, and offering, ultimately, a meditation on what it is to be alive.
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