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In this delightful novel, which won a Whitbread Prize in 1989, James Hamilton-Paterson joins celebrated British composer Edward Elgar on a cruise on the Amazon River and imagines what artists of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0939149486
ISBN13:9780939149483
Release Date:January 1991
Publisher:Soho Press
Length:264 Pages
Weight:1.33 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"
Customer Reviews
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
The initial section of this book has nothing to do with the plot and is very portentious and incomprehensible. Both I and my wife found it off-puting. However, starting on page 13, this is a superb, beautiful, and thought-provoking novel that I recommend unhesitatingly.
Gerontius
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Wistful, poignant and beautifully written, this is a touching and elegaic novel. Blending fact with imaginary events, Hamilton Paterson takes an extraordinary, but true, event from Elgar's life and constructs around it a simple but fabulous narrative about a man at a creative crisis. Thoroughly enjoyable.
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