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The Page Turner de David Leavitt

The Page Turner

Autor David Leavitt
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 iun 1999
At the age of eighteen Paul Porterfield dreams of playing piano at the world's great concert halls, yet the closest he's come has been to turn pages for his idol, Richard Kennington, a former prodigy who is entering middle age. The two begin a love affair that affects their lives in ways neither could have predicted. "Absorbing from start to finish" (The New Yorker), The Page Turner testifies to the tenacity of the human spirit and the resiliency of the human heart.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780395957875
ISBN-10: 0395957877
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:None.
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Mariner Books
Locul publicării:United States

Recenzii

"A wizard at blending levity and pathos, Leavitt writes gracefully about wounded, acutely self-conscious characters." The Chicago Tribune

"[T]he sombre tale is absorbing from start to finish." The New Yorker

"Leavitt explores loneliness, longing and entitlement with careful, precise language that is a privelege to read." The Detroit Free Press —

Notă biografică

David Leavitt's first collection of stories, Family Dancing, was published when he was just twenty-three and was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Faulkner Prize. The Lost Language of Cranes was made into a BBC film, and While England Sleeps was short-listed for the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize. With Mark Mitchell, he coedited The Penguin Book of Short Stories, Pages Passed from Hand to Hand, and cowrote Italian Pleasures. Leavitt is a recipient of fellowships from both the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He divides his time between Italy and Florida.

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At eighteen, Paul Porterfield aspires to play the piano at the world's great concert halls. So far the closest he has come has been to turn pages of sheet music for his idol, the dashing, temperamental Richard Kennington, a former piano prodigy on the cusp of middle age.

Months later, while on holiday with his mother in Italy, Paul encounters Richard a second time. Their earlier attraction develops into an intense affair. As the innocence of first love becomes entangled with the quest for a more enduring happiness, Paul comes to realise that he cannot be a page turner all his life and that he has to confront his ambitions.

With artful storytelling, shrewd perception and arch humour, THE PAGE TURNER testifies to the bittersweet truths of strained relationships and the resiliency of the human heart.