Grace Notes
MAC LAVERTY, Bernard
Sold by Peter White Books, Alton, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since August 3, 2001
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Add to basketSold by Peter White Books, Alton, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since August 3, 2001
Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketBooker Prize Shortlisted title in 1997. 277 pages + 5 prelims. Black boards in jacket. The jacket is complete and unclipped, showing the printed price £14.99. The book has the full number string on the copyright page. Every book is sent in a rigid cardboard posting box. Size: 22.5 cm x 14 Cm.
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Grace Notes, MacLaverty's first novel since Cal, is as much about Irish identity--and possibility--as it is about art. Catherine's newest piece, a mass, includes the huge drums Protestants play in parades. "It was a scary sound--like thunder. Like the town was under a canopy of dark noise." Though her fellow Catholics see the drums as instruments of threat, Catherine is determined to integrate them into her composition.
Her return to Belfast for her father's funeral brings back several ghosts, among them an influential professor who spoke of grace notes--"the notes between the notes." This novel is full of such instances, wry snatches of conversation and unforgettable observations: the new Chinese restaurant that has had to offer chips to stay in business, or the pub that's "on a slight hill. When dogs pissed at the door the dark lines ran diagonally to the gutter." These transcend the occasional passage in which MacLaverty tries too hard to see into the life and rhythms of a female artist. The final section, however, a live radio concert of Catherine's piece, is a triumph for both woman composer and male author.
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