Thomas Lang, world famous concert pianist has died in mysterious
circumstances. Michael Dessauer, one of his doting fans, writes to
Tom's brother asking for help with, and permission to write,
Thomas's biography. The ensuing correspondence is a duel of wits
between Christopher, reluctant, teasing, often deliberately
misleading and Michael, passionately searching for the truth about
his hero. The result is a collage of seemingly unrelated facts,
reviews, interviews, notes by Tom himself revealing a fastiduous
introverted genius whose obsessive love of music and of himself as
a musician has driven him to an unnatural demise of detachment from
life - so was it suicide? Jonathan Buckley's original first novel
explores the nature of genius and biography. (Kirkus UK)
An epistolary novel about a concert pianist and a young man's
attempt to write his biography. Thomas Lang was an outstanding
concert pianist. He was elusive, arrogant, depressive, mysterious,
and a genius. He died mysteriously, probably by his own hand. Bit
by bit, in a volley of letters between his would-be biographer and
Lang's brother Christopher, his life is pieced together and the
real Thomas Lang begins to emerge. Jonathan Buckley's first novel
ponders the nature of biography, the question of what a life is
and, more particularly, what a life becomes once it is finished,
who that life belongs to. Confident, endlessly inventive, often
very funny, it is one of the most assured debuts in British fiction
for some time.
General
| Imprint: |
4th Estate
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
February 1998 |
| First published: |
February 1998 |
| Authors: |
Jonathan Buckley
|
| Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - B-format
|
| Pages: |
272 |
| Edition: |
New Ed |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-85702-802-7 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
| LSN: |
1-85702-802-3 |
| Barcode: |
9781857028027 |
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