Watershed
  • Published: 9 April 2024
  • ISBN: 9780807016275
  • Imprint: Beacon Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $35.00

Watershed

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9 Apr 2024
Tr. Paperback
1 Sep 2018
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A classic of politics, murder, and espionage

"Watershed has all the makings of a social thriller...In this novel about water and the struggle for a life free of injustice, the mix doesn't just work, it flows." — Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio

A rediscovered classic of politics, murder, and espionage by the National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of James

On a windswept landscape somewhere north of Denver, Robert Hawks, a feisty and dangerously curious hydrologist, finds himself enmeshed in a fight over Native American treaty rights. What begins for Robert as a peaceful fishing interlude ends in murder and the disclosure of government secrets. Everett mines history for this one, focusing on the relationship between Native American activists and Black Panther groups who bonded over their shared enemies in the 1960s Civil Rights movement.

Watershed is an excellent example of Percival Everett’s famed bitingly political narrative style.
  • Published: 9 April 2024
  • ISBN: 9780807016275
  • Imprint: Beacon Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $35.00
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Praise for Watershed

"Precise and important, Watershed is a book about honesty, and how to live with dignity in the presence of betrayal. It is a story we need; it contains a code of action for the present and unfortunately for the near future. It is mercifully funny, as well." —Rick Bass, author of Where the Sea Used to Be

"This guy needs to be read by anyone who likes Charles Portis, Thomas Pynchon or even Kurt Vonnegut for that matter. Thematically there aren't many similarities but he has a singular voice of humor and seriousness that hits a sweet spot for people who give a s*** but need to laugh about it too." — Anonymous Reader