About the Book: Suder
'American literatures philosopher king and its sharpest satirist The New Yorker
Craig Suder, third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, is in a slump. His batting
average is shocking, his marriage somehow worse, and he secretly fears hes
inherited his mothers insanity. Ordered to take a midseason rest, Suder instead
takes his LP of Charlie Parkers 'Ornithology and flees. A dazzling tale of
madness, confinement and the need for escape, Suder introduced Percival Everett
to the world as a writer already fully capable of conjuring whole lives and
worlds on the page.
Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating