Suder

<p><b>‘American literature’s philosopher king – and its sharpest satirist’ – <i>The New Yorker</i></b><br><br>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 he’s inherited his mother’s insanity. Ordered to take a midseason rest, Suder instead takes his LP of Charlie Parker’s “Ornithology” and flees.<br><br>A dazzling tale of madness, confinement and the need for escape, <i>Suder</i> introduced Percival Everett to the world as a writer already fully capable of conjuring whole lives and worlds on the page.<br><br><b>Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.</b><br><br><b>Read Percival's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel <i>James</i> in paperback now.</b></p>