Sight Reading: A Novel - Couverture souple

Kalotay, Daphne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0062246941 ISBN 13 : 9780062246943

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2014

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Kalotay “takes great pains to get the little details right, both musical and geographical, and the resulting read is engaging and often insightful.... [S]urprising and satisfying...with some delightfully vivid writing.” (Boston Globe)

“Set in the hothouse world of classical music, this wise, elegant novel maps the fallout from a passionate affair over the course of two decades. . . . Daphne Kalotay writes with grace and authority, paying equal attention to the artistic and emotional lives of her characters.” (Tom Perrotta, New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers)

“This entertaining novel follows a group of musicians through twenty years of disappointments and betrayals; lusts, regrets, afflictions, and delusions; rehearsals, recombinations, and revelations.” (Edith Pearlman, award-winning author of Binocular Vision)

“SIGHT READING is at once a compelling story about love, loss and music in four interwoven lives, and an insightful exploration of the sources and expression of creativity. The results are compulsively readable, memorable and wise.” (Nancy Richler, award-winning author of The Imposter Bride)

“Kalotay’s thoughtful insights on artistic endeavors add depth to this graceful book.” (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

“Kalotay writes elegantly and ably about music and emotion, drafting a moving meditation on the sacrifices made for art and the mysteries of the heart.” (Publishers Weekly)

“Kalotay’s soulful second novel chronicles the collateral damage three classical musicians inflict on the people who love them. Merging two inherently incompatible modes of expression, writing and music, presents a formidable challenge-one Kalotay rises to admirably here.” (Kirkus Reviews)

“Kalotay celebrates art . . . in prose that is brisk and concise as well as sensuous and sumptuous . . . A fictive musical and familial feast.” (Booklist (starred review))

“[Kalotay] really shines when discussing musicians making music...[and] she effectively shows us how performing artists live. Much as we ourselves do, except they then get to create something gorgeous. (Library Journal)

“Ms. Kalotay manages to capture the fleeting exultation that performers feel whenever they play. It is as if she has been on stage, bow in hand, ready to make or break her career with a single piece of music:.” (New York Journal of Books)

Quatrième de couverture :

On a Boston street one warm spring day, Hazel and Remy spot each other for the first time in years. Though their meeting might seem insignificant, Remy, a gifted violinist, is married to the composer Nicholas Elko—once the love of Hazel's life. It has been twenty years since Remy, an ambitious conservatory student; Nicholas, a wunderkind on the cusp of success and its challenges; and the beautiful and fragile Hazel first met. From Europe to America, from conservatory life to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, they have forged crisscrossing paths of thrills and doubts, wonders and betrayals, each discovering how the quest to create something real and true can lead to deep personal revelations. As Remy and Hazel find themselves once more linked by shifting fate, Sight Reading explores the mysteries of intuition and perception while unspooling a transporting story of marriage, family, and long-held secrets.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0062246941
• ISBN 13: 9780062246943
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384