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Dr. No

by Percival Everett

PEN/Jean Stein Book Award · 2023 · WinnerNational Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction) · 2022 · Shortlist
Graywolf Pressliterary-fictionISBN 9781644452226

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About This Book

A mathematician who specialises in the study of nothing is recruited by a would-be supervillain. A darkly comic philosophical novel about race, academia, and the nature of evil. NBCC Fiction finalist 2022.

About the Author

Percival Everett is an American novelist, short story writer, and professor of English at the University of Southern California. Born in Fort Gordon, Georgia, in 1956, he studied philosophy at the University of Miami and received his MA from Brown University. He is the author of more than thirty books of fiction and poetry across a career of remarkable range, formal innovation, and critical intelligence. Read more →

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