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  • FOR HER DARK SKIN. by Everett, Percival.
    Everett, Percival.
    FOR HER DARK SKIN.

    Edition: First printing.

    Seattle: Owl Creek Press, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - A tautly constructed satirical treatment of the Medea myth which explores its relationship to questions both of race and gender as told in the voices of Medea, her nurse, Jason, Polydeuces and Tamar. Early in the story, Medea comments on Jason "That he was not overly bright was apparent, though he was a talker I would not have let him touch me, but the gods... not even my gods, but some chalk-skinned, bitch voyeur caused me to fall in love with this Jason." Anyone who has read Everett's novel 'Erasure" (basis of the film 'American Fiction') will recognize the autobiographical element in that novel. Hard to find, especially in…

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    Seattle: Owl Creek Press, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - A tautly constructed satirical treatment of the Medea myth which explores its relationship to questions both of race and gender as told in the voices of Medea, her nurse, Jason, Polydeuces and Tamar. Early in the story, Medea comments on Jason "That he was not overly bright was apparent, though he was a talker I would not have let him touch me, but the gods... not even my gods, but some chalk-skinned, bitch voyeur caused me to fall in love with this Jason." Anyone who has read Everett's novel 'Erasure" (basis of the film 'American Fiction') will recognize the autobiographical element in that novel. Hard to find, especially in the first edition. 152 pp. Dust jacket illustration by Shere C. Everett. ISBN: 0-937699458.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 88507
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