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Book Title

So Much Blue

Subtitle
A Novel
Author 1
Percival Everett
Body
Kevin Pace is working on a painting that he won’t allow anyone to see: not his children, not his best friend Richard, not even his wife, Linda. The painting is a canvas of twelve feet by twenty-one feet (and three inches) that is covered entirely in shades of blue. It may be his masterpiece or it may not; he doesn’t know or more accurately doesn’t care.

What Kevin does care about are the events of the past. Ten years ago he had an affair with a young watercolorist in Paris. Kevin relates this event with a dispassionate air, even a bit of puzzlement. It’s not clear to him why he had the affair, but he can’t let it go. In the more distant past of the late seventies, Kevin and Richard traveled to El Salvador on the verge of war to retrieve Richard’s drug-dealing brother, who had gone missing without explanation. As the events of the past intersect with the present, Kevin struggles to justify the sacrifices he’s made for his art and the secrets he’s kept from his wife.

So Much Blue features Percival Everett at his best, and his deadpan humor and insightful commentary about the artistic life culminate in a brilliantly readable new novel.

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List Price
$17.00
ISBN
ISBN
978-1-55597-782-5
Format
Format
Paperback
Publication Date
Publication Date
Subject
Subject
Pages
Pages
256
Trim Size
Trim Size
5.5 x 8.25
Keynote
A new high point for a master novelist, an emotionally charged reckoning with art, marriage, and the past

About the Author

Percival  Everett
Credit: Michael Avedon
Percival Everett is the author of more than thirty books, most recently The Trees and Telephone, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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Praise

  • So Much Blue is a comparatively accessible work yet still displays [Percival Everett’s] narrative prowess, erudition and sense of enigma. It is, in short, an ideal place to start with this great but neglected novelist.’”The Wall Street Journal
  • “Each individual strand of So Much Blue has a page-turning urgency of its own—but taken together they add up to a masterpiece.”The Boston Globe
  • “Captivating and pleasurable . . . So Much Blue is a ‘coming of middle-age’ story worth gazing into.”Los Angeles Times
  • “[So Much Blue is] essential for understanding [Percival Everett’s] multifaceted career, and it might also be key to recognizing a new form of literary social critique. . . . The process of piecing together this shattered triptych may yield a rich reward.”The Nation
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