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five stories of music and nightfall

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Nocturnes

five stories of music and nightfall

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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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Faber and Faber
Language
English
Pages
221

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Cover of: Nocturnes
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall (Vintage International)
September 21, 2010, Vintage
Paperback
Cover of: Nokt︠i︡urny
Nokt︠i︡urny: p︠i︡atʹ istoriĭ o muzyke i sumerkakh
2010, "Domino", "ĖKSMO"
in Russian
Cover of: Nokturny
Nokturny
2010, Albatros Andrzej Kuryłowicz
in Polish - Wyd. 1.
Cover of: Nocturnes
Nocturnes: five stories of music and nightfall
2009, Faber and Faber
in English
Cover of: Nocturnes
Nocturnes: five stories of music and nightfall
2009, Alfred A. Knopf
in English - 1st ed.

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Library of Congress
PR6059.S5 N63 2009b, PR6059.S5

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Pagination
221 p. ;
Number of pages
221

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Open Library
OL24076618M
Internet Archive
nocturnesfivesto0000ishi_a1t9
ISBN 13
9780571244980
LCCN
2009437810
OCLC/WorldCat
318881879

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