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005			20220725111806.0
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008			211125t20212021nyu e 000 1 eng
020			_a1398704644 _q(hardcover)
020			_a9781398704640 _q(hardcover)
020			_a9781398704657
020			_a1398704652
035			_a(OCoLC)1286326906 _z(OCoLC)1260165056
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050			_aPS3613.O8444 _bH45 2021
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100			_aMott, Jason, _eauthor. _951113
245	1	0	_aHell of a book : _bor the altogether factual, wholly bona fide story of a big dreams, hard luck, American-made mad kid / _cJason Mott.
260			_aLondon : _bTrapeze, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group Ltd., _c2021
300			_a319 pages ; _c22 cm
520			_aIn Jason Mott's Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and urgent: since Mott's novel also tells the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child who appears to the author on his tour. As these characters' stories build and build and converge, they astonish. For while this heartbreaking and magical book entertains and is at once about family, love of parents and children, art and money, it's also about the nation's reckoning with a tragic police shooting playing over and over again on the news. And with what it can mean to be Black in America. Who has been killed? Who is The Kid? Will the author finish his book tour, and what kind of world will he leave behind? Unforgettably told, with characters who burn into your mind and an electrifying plot ideal for book club discussion, Hell of a Book is the novel Mott has been writing in his head for the last ten years. And in its final twists it truly becomes its title.
520			_aSoot, a young Black boy, lives in a rural town in the recent past. The Kid, a possibly imaginary child appears to a Black author on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. As their stories build and converge, they astonish. As the nation reckons with a tragic police shooting playing over and over again on the news, what it can mean to be Black in America? Who has been killed? Who is The Kid? Will the author finish his book tour, and what kind of world will he leave behind? -- adapted from jacket
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _vFiction. _94201
650		0	_aFictitious characters _vFiction. _951114
650		0	_aAuthors _vFiction. _99756
650		0	_aBook industries and trade _vFiction. _951115
650		0	_aRacism _vFiction. _919241
650		0	_aPolice _vFiction. _92084
650		0	_aMurder _vFiction. _9768
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