An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and 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, all while navigating the recurrent communication problem: "?What's your name a kid would ask. ?Not Sidney, ? I would say. ?Okay, then what is it "
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Basically I just want to say it is a very "fun" book to read. You won't need dictionary, you won't get bored. Even without any culture knowledge and geographic knowledge about this country -- the very ridiculous country in the novel called the United States...
评分Basically I just want to say it is a very "fun" book to read. You won't need dictionary, you won't get bored. Even without any culture knowledge and geographic knowledge about this country -- the very ridiculous country in the novel called the United States...
评分Basically I just want to say it is a very "fun" book to read. You won't need dictionary, you won't get bored. Even without any culture knowledge and geographic knowledge about this country -- the very ridiculous country in the novel called the United States...
评分Basically I just want to say it is a very "fun" book to read. You won't need dictionary, you won't get bored. Even without any culture knowledge and geographic knowledge about this country -- the very ridiculous country in the novel called the United States...
评分Basically I just want to say it is a very "fun" book to read. You won't need dictionary, you won't get bored. Even without any culture knowledge and geographic knowledge about this country -- the very ridiculous country in the novel called the United States...
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It is not about who Sidney Poitier is, it is about we are not ourselves today.
评分It is not about who Sidney Poitier is, it is about we are not ourselves today.
评分It is not about who Sidney Poitier is, it is about we are not ourselves today.
评分It is not about who Sidney Poitier is, it is about we are not ourselves today.
评分It is not about who Sidney Poitier is, it is about we are not ourselves today.
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