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    <body><![CDATA[I took an advanced fiction class from Percival Everett and admired him immensely as a teacher and person, so I finally got around to reading one of his books. I had taken a look at &quot;Glyph&quot; before, but &quot;Erasure&quot; really got me. It's the story of a brilliant Black man who defies pop...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16533851">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The protagonist of Erasure, a novelist named Thelonious &quot;Monk&quot; Ellison, is having trouble getting his most recent work published when he comes across the work of an &quot;authentic&quot; black novelist whose book &quot;We's Lives in Da Ghetto&quot; is a runaway bestseller. Horrified by the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3261330">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well - This was an extrememly thought provoking book and I would have given it five stars had it not been so thought provoking at times that I had some difficulty following where the author wanted me to go.  <br/><br/>I felt the work dense -- and unfortunately I don't know Latin beyond the rudimen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4747604">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably my favorite contemporary work of fiction, also one of my favorite all-time novels, and written by one of my two favorite authors.    _Erasure_ was mostly marketed as a send-up of the publishing industry (especially in regards to race), and while it performs that function as humorously as yo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8536986">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had a lot of fun with this book...from his waaay over the top novel within a novel..to the imagined conversations of historical figures..it was a book I was anxious to get back to. Also included was a rather sad piece of family dynamics that the majority of the baby booming generation is currently...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18292380">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[preachy. self-involved.  oft-times offensive in the very way that his character is offended.  i wonder if this is one of the book's strategies-- offending you so that you understand how the 'poor protagonist' feels.  i found the &quot;literary remarks&quot; to be stodgy and pretentious.  for example...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49229166">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Percival Everett has been a wonderfully unexpected discovery for me this year. Here is this guy doing exactly the sort of thing I'm interested in (smart satire, lapsing into deeply felt surrealism, of contemporary culture), and he's hiding in broad daylight. He has something like twenty books out, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80935938">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ERASURE was published eight years ago, in 2001, before <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JT_LeRoy">the J.T. Leroy</a> hoax was outed and before the eerily echoing <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2009/11/precious-gets-the-bums-rush-from-armond-white.html">current debate over the film PRECIOUS</a>. it's hard to discuss the novel without talking about its elaborate plot and book-within-a-book structure. here's PW's gloss:<br/><br/><strong>Thelonius ...</strong><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77558583">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i love this book. i wish john would give it back to me. it is about a black author who, frustrated that his overintellectual experimental novels get no readers bc they get put in the 'black' sections in bkstores, decides to write a satirical 'ghetto lit' book (which is titled &quot;My Pafology&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10421827">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dazzling.  An arch, clever, often sad, and very, very funny entertainment satirizing the publishing world and commenting incisively on writerly woes of &quot;not being black enough&quot; and, well, not being read enough.  Contains an entire, deliberately bad, sassy and profane novel-within-a-novel t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52840246">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There's a novel within a novel that appears towards the tail end of the first 3rd of this book that I must confess I mostly didn't read. Much like Erasure's protagonist, Monk--and he wrote this piece of work--I couldn't bring myself to do it. The language is too ridiculous. The characters too much s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66786888">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a really interesting read.  You can take a look at plot summaries from other folks who have reviewed, but the question I walked away with was whether the central plot points (loss of family/questioning of roles and the send-up of the literary world/examination of race) were connected.  I th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33165501">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I read the cover of this book, I thought it would be fascinating... a story about overcoming racial segregation. But after about 20 pages, I couldn't finish the book. Usually I will try to read at least 100 pages to get into the story, but I found Everett's writing style quite boring. The only ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40459686">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've just finished a Contemporary Black Writers class and felt compelled to re-read this novel about the definitions of what blackness is being imposed by society.  I just adore Percival Everett and always feel like I've expanded my mind when I read any of his works.  My favourites of his are this a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39782410">more...</a>]]></body>
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