{"product_id":"intermission-owen-martell-9780099558828","title":"Intermission","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaptivating and hypnotic English-language debut from a Welsh novelist, deftly imagining the lost months of a jazz giant and the noir feel of 1960s New York music scene\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew York, June 1961: the Bill Evans Trio, featuring 25 year old Scott LaFaro on bass, play a series of concerts at the Village Vanguard that will go down in musical history. Shortly afterwards, LaFaro is killed in a car accident, and Evans disappears. This novel the story of what happens next. In measured, evocative prose, it takes a period from the life of one of America's great artists and fashions it into a fiction of extraordinary imaginative skill and ambition. The story inhabits the lives of four people in orbit around a tragedy, presenting an intense and moving portrait of the burden of grief, and of a man lost to his family and to himself. It is also a conjuring of a pivotal moment in American music and culture, and a unique representation of the jazz scene in the early 1960s.\u003ci\u003e Intermission\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel of pure control and power, sure to find fans in readers of Marilynne Robinson and Paul Harding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Owen Martell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0099558823\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780099558828\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Windmill Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Owen Martell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44138390454527,"sku":"9780099558828","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f603c1b8-9222-4c61-bb34-3f919f839d47.jpg?v=1687899396","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/intermission-owen-martell-9780099558828","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}