Damned If I Do

<p><b><i>Damned If I Do</i> is a set of brilliantly postmodern short stories from the twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author of <i>The Trees, James </i>and <i>Erasure.</i></b><br><br>An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen and even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man ends up in a high-speed chase with the cops after stealing the car that blocks the garbage bin at his apartment building. A stranger gets a job at a sandwich shop and fixes everything in sight: a manual mustard dispenser, a mouthful of crooked teeth, thirty-two parking tickets and a sexual identity problem.<br><br>Everett skewers race, class, identity, surrealism and much more in this masterful short story collection from one of America''s most inventive living writers.<br><br><b>Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.</b><br><br><b>Read Percival''s Booker Prize-shortlisted novel <i>James</i> in paperback now.</b></p>