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An Equal Music Book

Michael plays second violin in an up-and-coming Maggiore Quartet, lives on the north side of Hyde Park, takes early morning dips in the Serpentine, has a French girlfriend named Virginie. But his mind is constantly drawn to his first and only love, Julia, whom he knew in Vienna many years earlier. When he catches sight of Julia on a London bus, he cannot help but pursue her. Vikram Seth's new novel is a gently-paced, multi-layered work, proceeding in short sections which flit from Michael's ongoing search for Julia back to his childhood as a Rochdale butcher's son, his early training and breakdown in Vienna under the tyrannical Carl Kall, and the emotional history of his quartet; while Michael's discovery of a Beethoven trio rewritten as a string quintet acts as a motif for Michael's pursuit of the lost Julia: can Michael recapture the magic of the past, like Beethoven, who deafly transfigured what he so many years earlier had hearingly composed? Seth is quite brilliant at conveying the intense and complex interplay of chamber musicians, in rehearsal and performance (an odd, obsessed, introspective, separatist breed), and manages the near-impossible--to write in 1999 about Art and Love without embarrassment. --Alan StewartRead More

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    A powerful love story from the author of the international bestseller A SUITABLE BOY

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    'A masterpiece'Daily Mail'Will still be read with pleasure and absorption decades from now' Spectator'A wonder-work: irresistible, tense, deeply moving' Sunday Times'An extraordinary book' Independent on SundayA 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.'A novel that can stand being reread and reread, but the first time round is an emotional cliffhanger ... secure a copy for yourself, settle down, and prepare for the unforgettable' Sunday Times

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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 EQUALl 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. 'A novel that can stand being reread and reread but the first time round is an emotional cliffhanger ...secure a copy for yourself settle down and prepare for the unforgettable' Sunday Times

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    An Equal Music : Paperback : Orion Publishing Co : 9780753807736 : : 07 Oct 2004 : A powerful love story from the author of the international bestseller A SUITABLE BOY

  • 0753807734
  • 9780753807736
  • Vikram Seth
  • 20 December 1999
  • Phoenix
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 496
  • New Ed
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