{"product_id":"the-seven-league-boots-isbn-9780679758587","title":"The Seven League Boots","description":"In the triumphant concluding volume of the trilogy that began with \u003cb\u003eWhistle Guitar\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Spyglass Tree\u003c\/b\u003e, Albert Murray gives us what is at once an African American coming-of-age novel and a pitch-perfect evocation of a touring jazz band at the height of the Swing era. Murray's hero, Scooter, graduates from an Alabama college and becomes a bass player in an ensemble headed by the legendary Bossman. As Scooter criss-crosses the United States, he and his bandmates find themselves retracing Sherman's march to the sea, the Underground Railroad, and the conquest of the West. \u003cb\u003eThe Seven League Boots\u003c\/b\u003e is nothing less than a jazz epic, so vivid, high-spirited, and infectious that readers will tap their feet to the music of its prose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A work of joy, of celebration...a great work of art, a rich and moving song of the human spirit.\"--Los Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fictional tale spinner in the grand Southern tradition.\"--Washington Post Book World\u003cb\u003eAlbert Murray\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Omni-Americans, Stomping the Blues, The Hero and the Blues, South to a Very Old Place, Conjugations and Reiterations\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFrom the Briarpatch File\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the coauthor of\u003ci\u003e Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie\u003c\/i\u003e and the coeditor of\u003ci\u003e Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304483639525,"sku":"NP9780679758587","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679758587.jpg?v=1767741467","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-seven-league-boots-isbn-9780679758587","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}