9780571211470
The Love Bomb: And Other Musical Pieces
James Fenton
ISBN 13: 9780571211470
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Softcover
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This volume of libretti marks new work--and new terrain--for James Fenton. Commissioned by companies in New York and England, these musical pieces make the most of the poet's poignant, witty, and characteristically lyrical verse. Whether evoking modern-day London on the edge of apocalypse in THE LOVE BOMB, a timeless land beyond the moon in this version of Salman Rushdie's children's novel HAROUN AND THE SEA OF STORIES, or ancient Jerusalem in his stirring oratorio THE FALL OF JERUSALEM, which was composed to mark the millennium, Fenton's lucid storytelling and stylish wordplay bring these pieces vividly to life--with equal power in performance or on the page.
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"Gunn is an intelligent, disciplined writer, and her book is exquisitely carpentered, each scene seamlessly dovetailed with another....For this reason, it seems a bit odd that near the end of the novel Gunn begins not to write but to pronounce....[S]uddenly, we are being told what things mean--we're even given a sermon. It's as if Gunn didn't quite trust her original subtle strategy, as if she felt it necessary to give the reader more direct, reductive notions. Yet despite this, there is a truly moving gentleness at the heart of FEATHERSTONE."
Peter Cameron, New York Times Book Review, 02/09/2003
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