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Article: Outlandish Everett novel a worthy read; FICTION: A young man, orphaned at 11, must go through life with the cumbersome name Not Sidney Poitier.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- July 5, 2009
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Byline: STEVE WEINBERG
Special to the Star Tribune
One of the most talented contemporary novelists writing in English publishes his fiction with Graywolf Press in St. Paul, rather than with New York City-based behemoths such as Simon & Schuster or Random House. A new Percival Everett novel is cause for celebration at Graywolf and among his readers, so this review will celebrate "I Am Not Sidney Poitier."
Some of his novels are better than others -- a truism for any author -- but all are worth reading. (I have indeed read all of them.) Everett, who also teaches at the University of Southern California, is wildly inventive, yet somehow manages to ...