{"product_id":"buskers-holiday-9780996712408","title":"Busker's Holiday","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Adam Gussow\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bookbaby\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bookbaby\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom award-winning blues scholar and musician Adam Gussow, a taut, sexy first novel about the summer busking scene in Europe and a pair of wild-hearted young men who make a pitch for fame and glory, finding a girl or two along the way. Busker's Holiday is the story of McKay Chernoff, a Columbia University grad student with a harmonica in his pocket and a blues band in his background. Desolate and despairing after a disastrous romantic breakup, McKay decides to fly off to Paris and reinvent himself as a street performer. What follows is an epic summer voyage into the busking life, propelled by the mad exploits of Billy Lee Grant, a fearless young guitar shredder whose Memphis-to-Mississippi pedigree and Dylanesque surrealism make him, when he explodes into view, precisely the partner McKay has been yearning for. Burning like a latter-day Dean Moriarty, Bill goads McKay into a sun-drenched, all-night bender, stoked by wine, women, mushrooms, and trains, that careens down out of Avignon and across the French Riviera. What happens next--in Florence, Solingen, Amsterdam, Paris--is a story of purgatory, redemption, and love regained. Hope, in a word, as a modern troubadour returns from his wanderings, reborn.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bookbaby","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45082728104087,"sku":"9780996712408","price":683.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780996712408.webp?v=1767635054","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/buskers-holiday-9780996712408","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}