 | - Book Title: An Equal Music
- Author: Seth, Vikram
- ISBN: 753807734
- Publisher: Phoenix mass market p/bk
- Year Published: December 20, 1999
- Our Price: £5.78 GBP ($10.16 USD)
- Description: Amazon.co.uk Review: Michael plays second violin in an up-and-coming Maggiore Quartet, lives on the north side of Hyde Park, takes early morning dips in the Serpentine, has a French girlfriend named Virginie. But his mind is constantly drawn to his first and only love, Julia, whom he knew in Vienna many years earlier. When he catches sight of Julia on a London bus, he cannot help but pursue her. Vikram Seths new novel is a gently-paced, multi-layered work, proceeding in short sections which flit from Michaels ongoing search for Julia back to his childhood as a Rochdale butchers son, his early training and breakdown in Vienna under the tyrannical Carl Kall, and the emotional history of his quartet; while Michaels discovery of a Beethoven trio rewritten as a string quintet acts as a motif for Michaels pursuit of the lost Julia: can Michael recapture the magic of the past, like Beethoven, who deafly transfigured what he so many years earlier had hearingly composed? Seth is quite brilliant at conveying the intense and complex interplay of chamber musicians, in rehearsal and performance (an odd, obsessed, introspective, separatist breed), and manages the near-impossible--to write in 1999 about Art and Love without embarrassment. --Alan Stewart --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. : : Book Description: A powerful love story from the author of the international bestseller A SUITABLE BOYComments: pristine - as new- immediate availability Phoenix paperback 1999-483 pages. Format: Paperback. Pages: 483.
- Condition: New
- Dustcover: See Above
- Binding: See Above
- Type: Used Books
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