So Much Blue Paperback - 2017

Name: So Much Blue: A Novel
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Author: Everett, Percival
ISBN: 9781555977825

by Percival Everett

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A new high point for a master novelist, an emotionally charged reckoning with art, marriage, and the past

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.

Details

Title So Much Blue
Author Percival Everett
Binding Paperback
Pages 236
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Graywolf Press
Publication date 2017-06-13
ISBN 9781555977825 / 1555977820
Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.7 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 1.78 cm)
Category Fiction - General
Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Painters
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016951421
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

Booklist, 05/01/2017, Page 59
Kirkus Reviews, 04/01/2017, Page 46
Library Journal, 01/01/2017, Page 111
Publishers Weekly, 04/10/2017, Page 0
Shelf Awareness, 07/25/2017, Page 0

About the author

Percival Everett is the author of nearly thirty books, including Percival Everett by Virgil Russell, Erasure, and I Am Not Sidney Poitier. He has received the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction. He lives in Los Angeles.