Serious Music by Percival Everett - ISBN: 9781035092376
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A stolen talent fights for freedom and his voice through war and racism.
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Serious Music

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    304 pages

  • Release Date

    2 March 2027

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Summary

It 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 …

When Arthur Champion, a gifted young music scholar, is sent away to war, he experiences the unimaginable hellscape 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.

His odyssey takes him from playing in the jazz clubs of Paris to perfor…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781035092376
ISBN-10:1035092379
Author:Percival Everett
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Imprint:Pan Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:304
Release Date:2 March 2027
Dimensions:234mm x 153mm
About The Author

Percival Everett

Percival Everett is the author of over thirty books. His notable works include:

  • Telephone
  • Dr No
  • The Trees (shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, winner of the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize)
  • Erasure (adapted into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction)
  • James (an instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller; finalist for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Fiction, shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction)

Everett has received the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction. He has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist and is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

Percival Everett lives in Los Angeles.

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