{"product_id":"9781448135806","title":"Intermission","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaptivating and hypnotic writing from a prize-winning novelist, whose prose is reminiscent of Marilynne Robinson's and Paul Harding's.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew York, June 1961. The Bill Evans Trio, featuring twenty-five 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. \u003ci\u003eIntermission\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of what happens next.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn measured, evocative prose, \u003ci\u003eIntermission\u003c\/i\u003e 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 novel 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntermission \u003c\/i\u003eis a novel of pure control and power, certain to establish Owen Martell as one of the most promising young writers in Britain today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181483835632,"sku":"9781448135806","price":14.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781448135806_p0.jpg?v=1763829397","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781448135806","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}