Midnight hour encores - Hardcover

Brooks, Bruce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060207094 ISBN 13: 9780060207090

Publisher: Harper & Row, 1986

Synopsis

A sixteen-year-old cellist and musical prodigy travels crosscountry with her father, a product of the 1960s, to meet her mother, who abandoned her as a baby.

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Review:

A symphony waiting to be heard by the right audience, this is Bruce Brooks's most challenging yet overlooked novel. Sibilance is a smart, well-adjusted musical prodigy with a father who adores her and gives her plenty of freedom. Sounds like a perfect life, doesn't it? However, even gifted teenagers need to break away to find their own independence. The marvel here is the way Brooks creates an authentic rite of passage for this complex, witty young woman. How do we move from the warm safety of love into deeper love? Brooks knows the way.

About the Author:

Bruce Brooks was born in Virginia and began writing fiction at age ten. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1972 and from the University Of Iowa Writer's Workshop in 1980. He has worked as a newspaper reporter, a magazine writer, newsletter editor, movie critic, teacher and lecturer.

Bruce Brooks has twice received the Newbery Honor, first in 1985 for Moves Make the Man, and again in 1992 for What Hearts. He is also the author of Everywhere, Midnight Hour Encores, Asylum for Nightface, Vanishing, and Throwing Smoke. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0060207094
• ISBN 13: 9780060207090
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 263