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- Book Synopsis
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A fantastic follow up to the Booker Prize-shortlisted, bestselling novel James, Percival Everett's new novel follows the story of a young man forced to join up and fight in the First World War. He is a 'serious musician' and fabulous composer and it is his music that he uses to resist the most vicious expressions of power and prejudice he encounters – most vividly the music he writes to accompany the racist film Birth of a Nation to subversive and radical effect.
This the stunning follow up to James – this time it takes on the theme of how art can change society; who owns art; ideas about 'high' and 'low' culture; African Americans in the First World War; music. It is as rich, as provocative, as moving and as humane as James. This is a huge book for Mantle and Picador.
- About The Author
- Percival Everett is the author of over thirty books, including Telephone, Dr No, The Trees, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize and won the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, and Erasure, which was adapted into the major Oscar-winning film American Fiction. He has received the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. An instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller in hardback, James was a finalist for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Fiction, was shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize and was named the Winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Percival Everett lives in Los Angeles.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781035092376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Mantle, (02 March 2027)
- Number of Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 153 mm
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