The Cloud Machinery - Couverture souple

Whyte, C.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0753812584 ISBN 13 : 9780753812587

Editeur : Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2001

Synopsis

The theatre at St Hyginus, in an obscure corner of Venice, is about to reopen after 7 years of darkness. A young musician named Domenico has been employed to rehearse the company and direct the operas. In the eaves of the theatre Domenico and his lover Rodolfo discover an ageing, half-mad castrato called Angelo Colombani in a room filled with theatrical machinery. It was the failure of his cloud machinery, on a disastrous night seven years before, that led to the closure of the theatre. Admirably suited to the alchemical talents of Christopher Whyte, The Cloud Machinery reads like a tale by Hoffmann set to music by Mozart. Its brilliant and elegant surface cannot conceal disturbing pyschological undertones which make this a thoroughly contemporary novel.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born 1952, educated Cambridge and Perugia. Lectures in Scottish Literature at Glasgow University, and won a Saltire Award for a collection of poetry in 1991.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0753812584
• ISBN 13: 9780753812587
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible