{"product_id":"9781555847463","title":"Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe memoir that inspired the two-time Golden Globe Award–winning comedy series: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Funny . . . heartbreaking . . . [and] utterly absorbing” (Lee Smith, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e–bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eGuests on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Oboist Blair Tindall recounts her decades-long professional career as a classical musician—from the recitals and Broadway orchestra performances to the secret life of musicians who survive hand to mouth in the backbiting New York classical music scene, where musicians trade sexual favors for plum jobs and assignments in orchestras across the city. Tindall and her fellow journeymen musicians often play drunk, high, or hopelessly hungover, live in decrepit apartments, and perform in hazardous conditions—working-class musicians who schlep across the city between low-paying gigs, without health-care benefits or retirement plans, a stark contrast to the rarefied experiences of overpaid classical musician superstars. An incisive, no-holds-barred account, \u003ci\u003eMozart in the Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e is the first true, behind-the-scenes look at what goes on backstage and in the orchestra pit.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The book that inspired the Amazon Original series starring Gael García Bernal and Lola Kirke, this is “a fresh, highly readable and caustic perspective on an overglamorized world” (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132477882608,"sku":"9781555847463","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555847463_p0.jpg?v=1769899027","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555847463","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}