9780739381762
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
Kazuo Ishiguro
ISBN 13: 9780739381762
Publisher: Random House
Publication Date: 2009
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"Over the years Ishiguro has come to seem the most consistent writer of his generation: consistent in his formal choices, and consistent too in the quality of his work....He has a complete mastery of a particular kind of narrative structure, in which we move always towards anticlimax."
Michael Gorra, Times Literary Supplement, 05/08/2009
Review:"Questions of identity, artistic integrity, and success shape each of the five meshed stories in this droll and enrapturing collection. Each tale of musicians, muses, and users is funny and incisive; each is a fable about the dream of mastery and the nightmare of pragmatism; and each dramatic story line delivers arresting psychological transformations." (starred review)
Donna Seaman, Booklist Upfront, 08/01/2009
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Book Description: Random House Audio, United States, 2009. CD-Audio. Book Condition: New. Unabridged. 157 x 123 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character. A once-popular singer, desperate to make a comeback, turning from the one certainty in his life . . . A man whose unerring taste in music is the only thing his closest friends value in him . . . A struggling singer-songwriter unwittingly involved in the failing marriage of a couple he's only just met . . . A gifted, underappreciated jazz musician who lets himself believe that plastic surgery will help his career . . . A young cellist whose tutor promises to "unwrap" his talent . . . Passion or necessity--or the often uneasy combination of the two--determines the place of music in each of these lives. And, in one way or another, music delivers each of them to a moment of reckoning: sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, sometimes just eluding their grasp. An exploration of love, need, and the ineluctable force of the past, "Nocturnes "reveals these individuals to us with extraordinary precision and subtlety, and with the arresting psychological and emotional detail that has marked all of Kazuo Ishiguro's acclaimed works of fiction. "From the Hardcover edition.". Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780739381762 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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