โAmerican literatureโs philosopher king โ and its sharpest satiristโ โ The New Yorker
Craig Suder, third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, is in a slump. His batting average is shocking, his marriage somehow worse, and he secretly fears heโs inherited his motherโs insanity. Ordered to take a midseason rest, Suder instead takes his LP of Charlie Parkerโs โOrnithologyโ and flees.
A dazzling tale of madness, confinement and the need for escape, Suder introduced Percival Everett to the world as a writer already fully capable of conjuring whole lives and worlds on the page.
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