American desert
Subtitle: a novel
By: Percival Everett.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: College teachers -- Fiction; Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Fiction; Traffic accident victims -- Fiction; Regeneration (Biology) -- Fiction; Suicidal behavior -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "As American Desert opens, the novel's hero, Theodore Street, is driving toward the ocean, where he plans to walk into the waves and drown himself. But on his way, he is hit headlong by an oncoming van. He sails through the windshield, and although his face is unscratched and his bones unbroken, his head is sliced cleanly from his body." "At his funeral three days later, he sits up in his coffin, the sloppy stitching that binds his head and body together clearly visible. The mourners are horrified by his resurrection, and the story makes instant headlines throughout the world. He becomes a source of fear and embarrassment to his daughter, an object of derision and morbid curiosity to the press, a prized specimen for scientists, and Satan incarnate to an obscure religious cult."--BOOK JACKET.