**A moving novel about a blind son with a love for music that surpassed sight and gave him a vision uniquely his own.** A fortnight after jazz pianist Carl Tyler's funeral, his lover Tamara has one week to go before she leaves New Zealand to return to her native Chicago. His mother Nola wants to sol
Music Room: A Novel
β Scribed by Dennis McFarland
- Book ID
- 110710103
- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-us
- Weight
- 995 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781480465046
- ASIN
- B00HNI64RK
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β¦ Synopsis
Dennis McFarland's acclaimed debut novel, hailed by the New York Times Book Review as "a rare pleasure . . . Remarkable from its beginning to its surprising, satisfying end"
Musician Marty Lambert's life is already falling apart when he receives the phone call that changes everything. His brother, Perry, has killed himself in New York, and Martyβwith his marriage on the rocks and his record company sliding into insolvencyβdecides to leave San Francisco to investigate exactly what went wrong. His trip sends him headlong into the life his only brother left behindβhis pleasures and disappointments, his friends, his lovely girlfriend, Janeβand finally, to the home they shared growing up in Virginia. Along the way, through memories and dreams, Marty relives their complicated upbringing as the children of talented, volatile musicians and alcoholics. Through the tragedy, Marty finally faces the demons of his past, ones he pretended he had buried long ago, to emerge on the other side of grief, toward solace and a more hopeful future.
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