John Vercher

Devil Is Fine

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Produktbeschreibung

WINNER OF THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE ¿ LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION ¿ A PW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ¿ A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE PICK ¿ A KIRKUS BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR ¿ ONE OF NPR'S "BOOKS WE LOVE" FOR 2024 ¿ NAMED BEST OF JUNE BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND BOOKRIOT ¿ ONE OF THE MILLIONS' MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2024 Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he has just inherited a plot of land from his estranged white grandfather. He travels to a beach town several hours south of his home with the intention of selling the land immediately and moving on. But upon inspection, what lies beneath the dirt is far more complicated than he ever imagined. In a shocking irony, he is now the Black owner of a former plantation passed down by the men on his white mother's side of the family. Vercher deftly blurs the lines between real and imagined, past and present, tragedy and humor, and fathers and sons in this story of discovering and reclaiming a painful past. With the wit and rawness of Paul Beatty's The Sellout, Devil Is Fine is a gripping, surreal, and brilliantly crafted dissection of the legacies we leave behind and those we inherit.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Celadon Books
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 137mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781250894502
• ISBN-10: 1250894506
• Artikelnr.: 72658716

Autorenporträt

John Vercher lives in the Philadelphia area with his wife and two sons. He has a BA in English from the University of Pittsburgh and an MFA in creative writing from the Mountainview Master of Fine Arts program. John was an assistant teaching professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at Drexel University, was the inaugural Wilma Dykeman writer-in-residence at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, and is the 2024-2025 artist-in-residence at Monmouth University. His debut novel, Three-Fifths, was named one of the best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune and Booklist. It was nominated for the Edgar Award and the Strand Critics Award for Best Debut Novel. His second novel, After the Lights Go Out, called "shrewd and explosive" by the New York Times, was named a Best Book of Summer 2022 by Book Riot and Publishers Weekly and a Booklist Editors' Choice book of 2022. His most recent novel, Devil Is Fine, was named one of Time's Must-Read Books of 2024 and has been longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize.