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Erasure by percival everett, published in 2001, centers on thelonious ellison, a writer who is going through a rough patch in his career and has become cynical about the publishing industrys. The narrative is allusive, thickly ironic and includes different texts, various textures. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Monk, frustrated with his dismal book sales, composes a fierce parody of exploitative ghetto literature entitled my pafology.
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