The Metropolis case: a novel

✍ Scribed by Matthew Gallaway

• Publisher: Broadway Books;Crown Publishers
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 251 KB
• Edition: 1st ed
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

From the smoky music halls of 1860s Paris to the tumbling skyscrapers of twenty-first-century New York, a sweeping tale of passion, music, and the human hearts yearning for connection

Martin is a forty-year-old lawyer who, despite his success, feels disoriented and disconnected from his life in post-9/11 Manhattan. But even as he comes to terms with the missteps of his past, he questions whether his life will feel more genuine going forward.

Decades earlier, in the New York of the 1960s, Anna is destined to be a grande dame of the international stage. As she steps into the spotlight, however, she realizes that the harsh glare of fame may be more than she bargained for.

Maria is a tall, awkward, ostracized teenager desperate to break free from the doldrums of 1970s Pittsburgh. When the operatic power of her extraordinary voice leads Maria to Juilliard, New York seems to hold possibilities that are both exhilarating and uncertain.

Lucien is a young Parisian at the birth of the modern era, racing through the streets of Europe in an exuberant bid to become a singer for the ages. When tragedy leads him to a magical discovery, Lucien embarks on a journey that will help himand Martin, Maria, and Annalearn that its not how many breaths you take, its what you do with those youre given.

This unlikely quartet is bound together across centuries and continents by the strange and spectacular history of Richard Wagners masterpiece opera Tristan and Isolde. Grandly operatic in scale, their story is one of music and magic, love and death, betrayal and fate. Matthew Gallaways riveting debut will have readers spellbound from the opening page to its breathtaking conclusion.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Library : General
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780307463432