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I am Not Sidney Poitier / Percival Everett.

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Record Number 827513
ISBN 9781910312537 (paperback)
Author Everett, Percival author.
Title I am Not Sidney Poitier / Percival Everett.
Publisher/Date La Vergne, TN : Influx Press Ltd, 2020.
©2009
Pagination etc. 224 pages ; 20 cm.
Contents note Originally published: 2009.
Summary Note This novel follows the life of a young man named Not Sidney Poitier, after he was orphaned at age eleven and inherited a staggering number of shares in the Turner Broadcasting Corporation. This is an irreverent take on race, class, and identity in America. I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales. I was Not Sidney Poitier. Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man in an absurd country. The sudden death of his mother orphans him at age eleven, leaving him with an unfortunate name, an uncanny resemblance to the famous actor, and, perhaps more fortunate, a staggering number of shares in the Turner Broadcasting Corporation. Percival Everett’s hilarious new novel follows Not Sidney’s tumultuous life, as the social hierarchy scrambles to balance his skin color with his fabulous wealth. Maturing under the less-than watchful eye of his adopted foster father, Ted Turner, Not gets arrested in rural Georgia for driving while black, sparks a dinnertable explosion at the home of his manipulative girlfriend, and sleuths a murder case in Smut Eye, Alabama.
Subject - Name Turner, Ted -- Fiction
Subject Turner Broadcasting System -- Fiction
Young men -- Conduct of life -- Fiction
African American young men -- Fiction
Humorous fiction.
Shelf Location F EVER
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