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Damned If I Do

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Damned If I Do

By: Percival Everett
Narrated by: Tim Morgan
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Damned If I Do is an exceptional new collection of short stories by Percival Everett, author of the highly praised and wickedly funny novel Erasure.

People are just naturally hopeful, a term my grandfather used to tell me was more than occasionally interchangeable with stupid.

A cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen, and a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man ends up in a high-speed car chase with the cops after stealing the car that blocks the garbage bin at his apartment building. A stranger gets a job at a sandwich shop and fixes everything in sight: a manual mustard dispenser, a mouthful of crooked teeth, thirty-two parking tickets, and a sexual-identity problem.

Percival Everett is a master storyteller who ingeniously addresses issues of race and prejudice by simultaneously satirizing and celebrating the human condition.

©2004 Percival Everett (P)2026 Dreamscape Media Anthologies & Short Stories Short Stories Funny Witty Fishing
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This title should be called, Fishing Stories That Are Not About Fishing. This is inline with the author's brilliant ability too keenly focus on an interesting aspect of a character's makeup, by showing a snapshot of their existence. Also typical, is the frustration of a lack of closure. It is almost like the author enjoys frustrating his audience. The stories don't need endings and the characters are not linear.

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