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Love is blind : the rapture of Brodie Moncur
- Title
- Love is blind : the rapture of Brodie Moncur / William Boyd.
- Author
- Boyd, William, 1952-
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- 369 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "The Whitbread Award-winning author of A Good Man in Africa and the Costa Award-winning Restless now gives us a sweeping new novel that unfolds across fin-de-siècle Europe as it tells a story of ineffable passions--familial, artistic, romantic--and their power to shape, and destroy, a life. Brodie Moncur is a brilliant piano tuner, as brilliant in his own way as John Kilbarron--"The Irish Liszt"--The pianist Brodie accompanies on all of his tours from Paris to Saint Petersburg, as essential to Kilbarron as the pianist's own hands. It is a luxurious life, and a level of success Brodie could hardly have dreamed of growing up in a remote Scottish village, in a household ruled by a tyrannical father. But Brodie would gladly give it all up for the love of the Russian soprano Lika Blum: beautiful, worldly, seductive--and consort to Kilbarron. And though seemingly doomed from the start, Brodie's passion for her only grows as their lives become increasingly more intertwined, more secretive, and, finally, more dangerous--what Brodie doesn't know about Lika, and about her connection to Kilbarron and his sinister brother, Malachi, eventually testing not only his love for her but his ability, and will, to survive"--
- Brodie Moncur is a piano tuner, as brilliant in his own way as John Kilbarron, the pianist Brodie accompanies on all of his tours. It is a luxurious life, and a level of success Brodie could hardly have dreamed of growing up in a remote Scottish village, in a household ruled by a tyrannical father. But Brodie would gladly give it all up for the love of the Russian soprano Lika Blum: beautiful, worldly, seductive-- and consort to Kilbarron. Brodie's passion for Lika only grows as their lives become increasingly more intertwined, more secretive, and, finally, more dangerous. What Brodie doesn't know about Lika, and about her connection to Kilbarron and his sinister brother, Malachi, eventually tests Brodie's ability, and will, to survive. -- adapted from publisher info.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Romance fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Note
- "This is a Borzoi Book"--Title page verso.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-1080
- ISBN
- 9780525655268
- 0525655263
- LCCN
- 2018015401
- OCLC
- 1032293025
- Author
- Boyd, William, 1952- author.
- Title
- Love is blind : the rapture of Brodie Moncur / William Boyd.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Boyd, William, 1952- Love is blind. First North American edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018 9780525655275 (DLC) 2018019292
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-1080