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Belongs ToDublin
Barcode31952002410582
TitleDevil is fine / John Vercher.
AuthorVercher, John, author.
Call NoFIC VER
CollectionAdult Fiction
Reserve Item

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Dublin FIC VER31952002410582Available

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9781250894496 (e-book)
International Standard Book Number 9781250894489 (hardback)
International Standard Book Number 1250894484 (hardback)
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 813/.6 23/eng/20231023
Personal Name Vercher, John, author.
Title Statement Devil is fine / John Vercher.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Celadon Books, [2024]
Physical Description 262 pages ; 25 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume nc rdacarrier
Summary, Etc. "Our narrator is haunted. Haunted by panic attacks, a failed relationship, alcoholism, an academic career that wants to define him by his Blackness, and the trauma of the recent death of his 17-year-old son, Malcolm. When a letter arrives informing him that his maternal grandfather has left Malcolm a plot of land, our narrator leaves his life behind and heads to the seaside of the Northeast, where his identity is shaken by the dark and haunting secret that lies beneath this inherited land. With the wit of Paul Beatty's The Sellout and the nuance of Zadie Smith's On Beauty, author John Vercher's Devil is Fine is an emotional account of what it is to be a father, a son, a writer, and a biracial American fighting to reconcile freedom and creativity with the footprint of colonialism. Gripping, surrealist, and darkly funny, Devil is Fine is a brilliantly-crafted dissection of the legacies we leave behind, and those we inherit"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Inheritance and succession Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Fathers and sons Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term African Americans Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Identity (Psychology) Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Sons Fiction. Death
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Grief Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels. lcgft