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Serious Music: A Novel
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of James, our 2024 Book of the Year, returns with Serious Music, a piercing story of survival, resilience and the power of art. Percival Everett brings readers from the trenches of war to the jazz clubs of Paris through the eyes of a young Black musician. After being unceremoniously enlisted in the US Army, Arthur Champion’s life takes a turn in this darkly humorous, electrifying story.
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 illicit 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...
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...
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