Serious Music
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A 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 inner sanctum of Woodrow Wilson’s White House, by the Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of James
In 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.”
A 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 masterly writer’s contribution to American letters.
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Serious Music Hardcover - 2-Mar-27
A 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 inner sanctum of Woodrow Wilson’s White House, by the Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of James
In 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.”
A 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 masterly writer’s contribution to American letters.
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- 20th Century
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ISBN-13: 9780385552585
Format: Hardcover
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Language: English
Number of pages: 304
Dimensions: 8.3 in H | 5.5 in W | 0.8 in T | 1 lb Wt
Sku: 1-50000-45282
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