A novel about music and 2 musicians, a violinist and a pianist and time and love. 381 pp. Black cloth covered boards have gilt text on spine. Unclipped ($29.99) DJ has 1/4" white mark on bottom rear edge, ow as new. Book is from the collection of Toronto author/poet and perennial Harbourfront Feastival host and Artistic Director, Greg Gatenby. Date of the book's acquisition and Gatenby's signature are found on ffep. Flatsigned and dated in blue ink by author on title page. SIGNED by AUTHOR Bookseller's Inventory # 122931. Seller Inventory # 002931

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Title: An Equal Music ** SIGNED **

Publisher: McArthur & Company, Toronto, ON, Canada

Publication Date: 1999

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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DIFFERENT OFFER (this item listed here is DIFFERENT from the title and/or picture above. Please see description & pictures by BookGems before placing an order): Edition Phoenix House, First Impression, 1999. ISBN: 1-861591-17-9. HARDBACK. 390 pages, size: 16.3 x 24.2 x 4.2 cm. Just light tan to paper edges. Other than that, the book remains in very good condition: dust cover intact albeit minor rubbing to edges; red cloth hard cover bright with gilt lettering on spine; text all clean, neat and tight. Prompt dispatch from UK.

Review:

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 Stewart

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