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The Music: Stories

✍ Scribed by Hamilton-Paterson, James

Book ID: 109039615
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Weight: 149 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780571320851

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✦ Synopsis

This brilliant sequence of short stories, first published in 1995, sees James Hamilton-Patterson serving up fables and fictions on creativity, tradition and loss, all of them linked by the love of music and underpinned by a musical theme. An escaped lunatic who thinks he is Schumann interrupts a quiet family picnic; a Croat refugee gifted at the guitar enters and unsettles a woman's life; and a Chinese master-teacher struggles with a pupil who would dare to modify a musical canon.

'Written in a wide range of voices... (these tales) reveal an imagination as wide-ranging as it is dazzling. Astonishingly versatile... extremely funny.' Christina Patterson, Independent

'Beautiful, eerie, witty, astute, dazzling.' Observer

'As perfect a collection of short stories as you're ever likely to come across.' Paul Sussman, Independent on Sunday

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