Nocturnes

Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

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Kazuo Ishiguro, Kirby Heyborne, Simon Vance, Lincoln Hoppe, Mark Bramhall: Nocturnes (AudiobookFormat, 2009, Brand: Random House Audio, Random House Audio)

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Published Sept. 22, 2009 by Brand: Random House Audio, Random House Audio.

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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 …

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