{"product_id":"serious-music-a-novel-by-percival-everett","title":"Serious Music: A Novel by Percival Everett (Hardcover) (PREORDER)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFiction - Literary - Historical - 20th Century - African American \u0026amp; Black\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRELEASE DATE: 3\/2\/2027 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e(WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER'S WAREHOUSE)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA thrilling, darkly comic journey of a Black musician making his way from the trenches of the Somme, to the jazz clubs of Harlem, to the illicit inner sanctum of Woodrow Wilson’s White House, by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of James.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1918, Arthur Champion is one of a handful of Black students attending the Oberlin Conservatory of Music when he runs afoul of a vindictive professor and finds himself unceremoniously enlisted in the United States Army. What ensues is one man’s sweeping voyage through the decade, a kaleidoscopic view of America during seismic social shifts from the author hailed by The Chicago Tribune as “our current Great American Novelist.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA brilliant interrogation of racism and ownership in art, Serious Music is a breakneck, high-octane read, thrumming with the electrifying humor and rigorous moral clarity that is the hallmark of this masterful writer’s contribution to American letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAUTHOR BIO: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePERCIVAL EVERETT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC and the author of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. His other most recent books include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDr. No\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Trees\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTelephone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSo Much Blue, Erasure,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Am Not Sidney Poitier.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award, The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University, and the Stowe Prize for Literary Activism. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer Danzy Senna, and their children.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Doubleday","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50385485562049,"sku":"9780385552585","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0535\/7522\/1441\/files\/9780385552585.jpg?v=1783461893","url":"https:\/\/www.bookhavenbooks.com\/products\/serious-music-a-novel-by-percival-everett","provider":"Book Haven Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}