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Nocturnes: five short stories of music and nightfall / Kazuo Ishiguro
by Ishiguro, Kazuo (1954-)
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London: Faber & Faber, 2009. 1st Edition. Softcover. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Physical description: 221 p.; 20 cm. Contents: Crooner -- Come rain or come shine -- Malvern Hills -- Nocturne -- Cellists. Subjects: Fiction. Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post C 1945). Short stories, English. Musicians; Fiction. Music; Fiction. Short stories, English 21st century. Love stories. Genre: Short story.
Synopsis
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 whose unerring taste in music is the only thing his closest friends value in him . . . A struggling singer-songwriter unwittingly involved in the failing marriage of a couple he's only just met . . . A gifted, underappreciated jazz musician who lets himself believe that plastic surgery will help his career . . . A young cellist whose tutor promises to "unwrap" his talent . . .Passion or necessity--or the often uneasy combination of the two--determines the place of music in each of these lives. And, in one way or another, music delivers each of them to a moment of reckoning: sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, sometimes just eluding their grasp.An exploration of love, need, and the ineluctable force of the past, Nocturnes reveals these individuals to us with extraordinary precision and subtlety, and with the arresting psychological and emotional detail that has marked all of Kazuo Ishiguro's acclaimed works of fiction.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Title
- Nocturnes: five short stories of music and nightfall / Kazuo Ishiguro
- Author
- Ishiguro, Kazuo (1954-)
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
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- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0571245005
- ISBN 13
- 9780571245000
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- London: Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2009
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