Trout's Lie

by Percival Everett

Overview

In Trout's Lie, Percival Everett explores the semantic relationship between sense and so-called nonsense—and questions whether either is actually possible.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781597099981
Publisher:	Red Hen Press
Publication date:	10/15/2015
Edition description:	1
Pages:	72
Sales rank:	300,579
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Percival Everett is the author of more than twenty-five books, among them the novels Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Glyph and Erasure. His last volume of poems, Swimming Swimmers Swimming was also published by Red Hen Press. He is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Praise for Percival Everett:

“. . . Artful and literate, Everett explores the philosophical, the metaphysical, the physical and the psychological boundaries of human life . . .”

—Terry D’Auray

“. . . Everett achieves a primal sense of dislocation, forcing us to question how we determine the limits of the human . . . ”

—Sven Birkets, The New York Times

“. . . The audacious, uncategorizable Everett. He mixes genre and tone with absolute abandon, never does the same song twice. Brilliant . . .”

—The Boston Globe

“. . . An author who dances with language as effortlessly as Fred Astaire.”

—Daniel Quinn, author of Ishmael