Part parable, part fantasy novel, part laugh-out-loud satire,
American Desert is the story of Theodore Street, a college
professor on the brink of committing suicide. When the decision is
taken out of his hands--he's hit by a car and his head is severed
from his body--he must come to terms with himself. At his funeral,
he sits up in his own coffin with the stitches that bind his head
to his body clearly visible. Everyone is horrified by this
resurrection. He becomes a source of fear and embarrassment to his
daughter, and an object of derision and morbid curiosity to the
press and the scientific communities, and is anointed as a sort of
devil by an obscure religious cult. In the process, Theodore
manages to reestablish his relationship with his estranged wife and
family and to rediscover the value of his life. In this
experimental, satirical, and bizarre novel, critically acclaimed
author Percival Everett once again takes on the assumptions of a
culture whose priorities have gone out of whack. He lampoons the
press, religion, and academia while offering, ultimately, an
existential meditation of what constitutes being alive.
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