num_pages: 294
description: This provocative tale within a tale details the life of avant-garde novelist and college professor Thelonious "Monk" Ellison. Monk, frustrated with his dismal book sales, composes a fierce parody of exploitative ghetto literature entitled My Pafology, which is greeted by critics as the work of a great new voice and garners him the success that he covets. Monk's impending struggle with his moral principles emerges as a revolutionary and riotous indictment of race and publishing in America.
language: English
title: Erasure
titlecomplete: Erasure
genres: Literature, American, Literary Fiction, Novels, African American, 21st Century, Fiction, Race, Humor, Contemporary
ratings_count: 5206
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Faber & Faber