| The Courage Consort Contributor(s): Faber, Michel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156032767 ISBN-13: 9780156032766 Publisher: Harper Paperbacks OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2005 Annotation: In this novella, an a cappella vocal ensemble is sequestered in a Belgian chateau to rehearse a monstrously complicated new piece. But competing artistic temperaments and sexual needs create as much discordance as the avant-garde music. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004005912 |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6.6" W x 7.96" (0.50 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With his elegant prose and perceptive imagination, the bestselling author of The Crimson Petal and the White creates a unique, self-contained world, where the perennial human drama plays out in all its passion and ambiguity. In these acclaimed novellas, Michel Faber takes on the interior world of inventively crafted characters. The Courage Consort tells of an a capella vocal ensemble sequestered in a Belgian chateau to rehearse a monstrously complicated new piece. But competing artistic temperaments and sexual needs create as much discordance as the avant-garde music. In The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps, a lonely woman joins an archaeological dig at Whitby Abbey and unearths a mystery involving a long-hidden murder. In The Fahrenheit Twins, strange children, identical in all but gender and left alone at the icy zenith of the world by their anthropologist parents, create their own ritual civilization. |
Contributor Bio(s): Faber, Michel: - Michel Faber's work has been published in twenty countries and received several literary awards. He lives in Scotland. |