{"product_id":"9781035036615","title":"The Trees","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Everett, Percival \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 5 October 2023 by Pan Macmillan (Picador) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 352 pages\u003cbr\u003e200 x 130 x 22 | 244g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett's The Trees is a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Sunday Times Fiction Book of the YearWinner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic FictionA Sunday Times Novel of the Year'He makes a revenge fantasy into a comic horror masterpiece.’ – Los Angeles TimesWhen the rural town of Money, Mississippi is beset by a series of brutal murders, a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive. Only to be met with resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a mob of racist white townsfolk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis, they expect. Less predictable, however, is the second corpse which appears at each crime scene: that of a man resembling Emmett Till, the young Black boy lynched in the same town sixty-five years earlier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a spate of copycat killings spreads across the country, what begins as a murder investigation soon becomes a journey into the soul of America’s violent past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of James, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Erasure, adapted into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy.’ - The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cobham Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55491321233794,"sku":"9781035036615","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/4567\/2367\/files\/9781035036615.jpg?v=1753744060","url":"https:\/\/www.cobhambooks.pro\/products\/9781035036615","provider":"Cobham Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}