{"product_id":"9781035092345","title":"Serious Music - Signed First Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Everett, Percival | Modern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945) \u003cbr\u003ePublished 23\/03\/2027 by PAN MACMILLAN (Macmillan) in the United Kingdom \u003cbr\u003eHardback | 304 pages\u003cbr\u003e234 x 153mm | 0g\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSigned First Edition - Hardback - Publishes March 23rd\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt turned out that my music had never left me. It had been stolen, yes, but not stolen away. I had simply never been free to play it . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Arthur Champion, a gifted young music scholar, is sent away to war, he experiences the horrors of the Somme trenches. Surviving the slaughter, he begins to forge a new life for himself, discovering the profound, subversive power of his own musical voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis extraordinary odyssey takes him from playing in the jazz clubs of Paris to performing for Woodrow Wilson in the White House, and back again, his only constant companions his humour, his abiding love for music, and the racism of the age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSerious Music is the outstanding story of a young Black man’s struggle to find his place in a world that resents his very existence. It is a profoundly moving novel about trauma, survival, and the weaponization of art, and it is sure to cement Percival Everett’s reputation as one of our greatest living writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘An American master at the peak of his powers’ – Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"THE CLEEVE BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57200495034743,"sku":"9781035092345","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/0729\/3737\/files\/9781035092345.jpg?v=1781859425","url":"https:\/\/thecleevebookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781035092345","provider":"The Cleeve Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}