Name: Dr. No: A Novel (en Inglés)
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Author: Percival Everett
ISBN: 9781644452080

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Percival Everett

Editorial

Graywolf Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

232

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.1 x 14.2 x 2.5 cm

Peso

0.34 kg.

ISBN13

9781644452080

Categorías

Relativo a los afroamericanos
Ficción: general y literaria

Dr. No: A Novel (en Inglés)

Percival Everett (Autor) · Graywolf Press · Tapa Blanda

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WINNER OF THE 2023 PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD A sly, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star keeps rising The protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means "nothing" in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for "nothing.") He is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of study is nothing, and he does nothing about it. This makes him the perfect partner for the aspiring villain John Sill, who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal, well, not gold bars but a shoebox containing nothing. Once he controls nothing he'll proceed with a dastardly plan to turn a Massachusetts town into nothing. Or so he thinks. With the help of the brainy and brainwashed astrophysicist-turned-henchwoman Eigen Vector, our professor tries to foil the villain while remaining in his employ. In the process, Wala Kitu learns that Sill's desire to become a literal Bond villain originated in some real all-American villainy related to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. As Sill says, "Professor, think of it this way. This country has never given anything to us and it never will. We have given everything to it. I think it's time we gave nothing back." Dr. No is a caper with teeth, a wildly mischievous novel from one of our most inventive, provocative, and productive writers. That it is about nothing isn't to say that it's not about anything. In fact, it's about villains. Bond villains. And that's not nothing.

Percival Everett

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Es considerado por la crítica como uno de los grandes escritores norteamericanos de este siglo. Nació en 1956 en Georgia (EE.UU.). Su voz rompe moldes a través de una extraña mezcla de profundidad de pensamiento y humor salvaje. Ha recibido numerosos premios. Fue finalista del Booker Prize por Los árboles. La adaptación al cine de su novela Cancelado ganó el Óscar al mejor guion adaptado como American Fiction en 2024.

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