Nocturnes-Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nig

Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

✍ Ishiguro, Kazuo 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Knopf 🌐 English ⚖ 266 KB

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 wh

Nocturnes: five stories of music and nightfall

✍ Ishiguro, Kazuo 📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 138 KB

In a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded sta

Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

✍ Ishiguro, Kazuo 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 127 KB

### From Publishers Weekly This suite of five stories hits all of Ishiguro's signature notes, but the shorter form mutes their impact. In Crooner, Tony Gardner, a washed-up American singer, goes sloshing through the canals of Venice to serenade his trophy wife, Lindy. The narrator, Jan, is a hired

Nocturnes-Five Stories of Music and Nigh

Nocturnes-Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

✍ Ishiguro, Kazuo 📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 121 KB

Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

✍ Ishiguro, Kazuo 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Random House, Inc. 🌐 en-GB ⚖ 271 KB

### From Publishers Weekly This suite of five stories hits all of Ishiguro's signature notes, but the shorter form mutes their impact. In Crooner, Tony Gardner, a washed-up American singer, goes sloshing through the canals of Venice to serenade his trophy wife, Lindy. The narrator, Jan, is a hired

Nocturnes: five stories of music and nightfall

✍ Kazuo Ishiguro 📂 Fiction 📅 2009 🏛 Knopf Canada 🌐 en-US ⚖ 111 KB 👁 2 views

In this sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores love, music and the passage of time. This quintet ranges from Italian piazzas to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the "hush-hush floor" of an exclusive Hollywood hotel. Along the way we meet young dreamers, café musicians and faded stars, all a