Sight Reading: A Novel - Softcover

Kalotay, Daphne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062246941 ISBN 13: 9780062246943

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2014

Synopsis

Lyrical and evocative, Sight Reading by Daphne Kalotay is an intense, literary love story.

When Hazel and Remy happen upon each other on a warm Boston spring day, their worlds immediately begin to spin. Remy, a gifted violinist, is married to composer Nicholas Elko, who was once the love of Hazel's life. Over the decades, each buried secrets, disappointments, and betrayals that now threaten to undermine their happiness.

We follow the notes of their complicated, intertwined lives from 1987 to 2007, from Europe to America, and from conservatory life to the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Sight Reading, from the author of the acclaimed debut novel Russian Winter, is an exploration of what makes a family, of the importance of art in daily life, and of the role of intuition in both the creative process and the evolution of the self.

About this title

Book Description:

Winner of the 2014 New England Society Book Award, Sight Reading is an intense, literary love story.

When Hazel and Remy happen upon each other on a warm Boston spring day, their worlds immediately begin to spin. Remy, a gifted violinist, is married to composer Nicholas Elko, who was once the love of Hazel's life. From Europe to America, from conservatory life to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, their lives have crisscrossed, diverged, and interlaced, each woman discovering how the quest to create something real and true can lead to profound personal revelations—and the unearthing of long-held secrets. As Remy and Hazel find themselves once more linked by shifting fate, Sight Reading explores mysteries of intuition and perception while unspooling a transporting story of marriage, family, and the secrets we keep, even from ourselves.

From the Back Cover:

On a Boston street one warm spring day, Hazel and Remy spot each other for the first time in years. Though their meeting might seem insignificant, Remy, a gifted violinist, is married to the composer Nicholas Elko—once the love of Hazel's life. It has been twenty years since Remy, an ambitious conservatory student; Nicholas, a wunderkind on the cusp of success and its challenges; and the beautiful and fragile Hazel first met. From Europe to America, from conservatory life to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, they have forged crisscrossing paths of thrills and doubts, wonders and betrayals, each discovering how the quest to create something real and true can lead to deep personal revelations. As Remy and Hazel find themselves once more linked by shifting fate, Sight Reading explores the mysteries of intuition and perception while unspooling a transporting story of marriage, family, and long-held secrets.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0062246941
• ISBN 13: 9780062246943
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384