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Item Details
Title:
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THE MUSIC
STORIES |
By: |
James Hamilton-Paterson |
Format: |
Paperback |

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£12.00 |
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£10.80 |
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ISBN 10: |
0571320848 |
ISBN 13: |
9780571320844 |
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Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
Pub. date: |
20 November, 2014 |
Edition: |
Main |
Pages: |
272 |
Description: |
An escaped lunatic who thinks he is Schumann interrupts a quiet family picnic; a Croat refugee gifted at the guitar enters and unsettles a woman's life; and a Chinese master-teacher struggles with a pupil who would dare to modify a musical canon. This book includes short stories. |
Synopsis: |
This brilliant sequence of short stories, first published in 1995, sees James Hamilton-Patterson serving up fables and fictions on creativity, tradition and loss, all of them linked by the love of music and underpinned by a musical theme. An escaped lunatic who thinks he is Schumann interrupts a quiet family picnic; a Croat refugee gifted at the guitar enters and unsettles a woman's life; and a Chinese master-teacher struggles with a pupil who would dare to modify a musical canon. "Written in a wide range of voices...(these tales) reveal an imagination as wide-ranging as it is dazzling. Astonishingly versatile ...extremely funny". (Christina Patterson, Independent). "Beautiful, eerie, witty, astute, dazzling". (Observer). "As perfect a collection of short stories as you're ever likely to come across". (Paul Sussman, Independent on Sunday). |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
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