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Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
by Ishiguro, Kazuo
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket rear panel lightly soiled.
- ISBN 10
- 0307271021
- ISBN 13
- 9780307271020
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket rear panel lightly soiled.. 2009. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0307271021 . Blue cloth with deckled fore-edge. About the author page. A lovely first printing copy of this short story collection with bookplate signed by the Nobel Prize winning author on the half-title page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 221 pages .
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46948
- Title
- Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
- Author
- Ishiguro, Kazuo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket rear panel lightly soiled.
- Edition
- First US Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0307271021
- ISBN 13
- 9780307271020
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- 0307271021, 2000s Fiction, Nobel Laureates In Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Short Stories and Essays;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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