{"product_id":"eddie-signwriter-adam-schwartzman-9780307474667","title":"Eddie Signwriter","description":"A stunning debut novel--its power and prose evocative of such diverse writers as Faulkner, Ondaatje, Nabokov, and Coetzee-about a young African's international odyssey of self-discovery. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKwasi Edward Michael Dankwa--Eddie Signwriter to his clients--is a twenty-year-old painter of murals and billboards in the city of Accra, Ghana, who is buffeted by forces beyond his control and understanding as he is swept up by the passions and machinations of others. Struggling with a forbidden relationship, banished from school, held responsible for the death of a notable woman in the community, Eddie flees overland to Senegal and then, illegally, to France, determined to find a new life for himself among the immigrant communities of Paris. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing him across magnificently rendered African lands into the precincts of Paris, \u003ci\u003eEddie Signwriter\u003c\/i\u003e gives us a spellbinding tale of rootlessness and desire, of disgrace and redemption, of politics both personal and global, of art and love. Empathic, wise, deeply humane, and luminously written, it heralds Adam Schwartzman as a writer of great promise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Schwartzman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0307474666\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307474667\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/12\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/31\/2011 pg. 24","brand":"Adam Schwartzman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46135987405055,"sku":"9780307474667","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7cb7c523-8bcd-43a5-add3-f840dff6bf55.jpg?v=1726415348","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/eddie-signwriter-adam-schwartzman-9780307474667","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}