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Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
by Kazuo Ishiguro
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 2009. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. An excellent first edition, first impression of Kazuo Ishiguro's short story collection based on music and musicians. The first edition, first impression of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. A collection of five short stories by the renowned author Kazuo Ishiguro, who won the 1989 Booker Prize for Remains of the Day, and the 2017 Nobel Prize in literature. These stories, which focus on music, musicians, and the close of day, mingle themes of unfulfilled potential, regret and humour, in Ishiguro's characteristically moving style. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is in lovely condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Dust wrapper is in excellent condition. Fine
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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- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 880M33
- Title
- Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
- Author
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Illustrator
- Not Stated
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2009
- Size
- 8.5" by 5.5"
- Keywords
- Kazuo Ishiguro Short stories Story cycle Short stories
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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