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An
Equal Music
Vikram Seth
Phoenix,
1999
Paperback.
486pp.
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A chance sighting
on a bus; a letter which should never have been read; a pianist
with a secret that touches the heart of her music... An Equal
Music is a book about love, about the love of a woman lost
and found and lost again; it is a book about music and how the
love of music can run like a passionate fugue through a life.
It is the story of Michael, of Julia and of the love that binds
them.
Other
books by Vikram Seth include A Suitable
Boy.
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The
Courage Consort
Michel Faber
Canongate,
2002
Paperback.
121pp.
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The Courage
Consort, possibly the seventh best-known a cappella vocal ensemble
in Britain, are given two weeks in a Belgian chateau to rehearse
their latest commission, the monstrously complicated Partitum
Mutante. But is the piece performable? Does it matter that
its composer is a maniac best known for attacking his wife with
a stiletto shoe at the baggage reclaim of Milan airport? Can the
five members of the consort endure their own sexual tensions and
wildly differing temperaments? And what is the inhuman voice that
calls out to them from the woods at night?
The esoteric
world of avant-garde classical music is the unlikely setting for
a story of rare power, perhaps the most moving Michel Faber has
yet written. From the chaos and hilarity of Partitum Mutante,
a numbed woman comes alive to the realities of friendship, independence
and desire.
Other
books by Michel Faber include Under
the Skin.
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Music
and Silence
Rose Tremain
Vintage,
2000
Paperback.
454pp.
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In the year
1629 a young English lutenist named Peter Claire arrives at the
Danish Court to join King Christian IV's Royal Orchestra. From
the moment when he realises that the musicians perform in a freezing
cellar underneath the royal apartments, Peter Claire understands
that he's come to a place where the opposing states of light and
dark, good and evil, are waging war to the death.
Designated
the King's 'Angel' because of his good looks, he finds himself
falling in love with the young woman who is the companion of the
King's adulterous and estranged wife, Kirsten. With his loyalties
fatally divided between duty and passion, how can Peter Claire
find the path that will realise his hopes and save his soul?
Other
books by Rose Tremain include The Way
I Found Her, Sacred Country
and The Cupboard.
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Coming
Through Slaughter
Michael Ondaatje
Picador,
1984 (first published in 1979)
Paperback.
170pp.
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The story
is based on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the
legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-century New Orleans. Ostensibly
a novel, the book is a documentary recreation of Bolden's life.
Other
books by Michael Ondaatje include The
English Patient and Anil's
Ghost.
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The
Last Master : Passion and Anger
John Suchet
Warner
Books,1997
Paperback.
622pp.
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The Last
Master is a fictional biography of Ludwig Van Beethoven in
three parts. Passion and Anger is the first volume, which
follows the prodigy as he emerges from the shadow of his father's
thwarted ambitions to cultivate his own unique place in the musical
life of Vienna, Europe's musical capital but a city caught up
in the war against Napoleon.
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other books in the series are Passion
and Pain and Passion and Glory.
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