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Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0307271021
- ISBN 13
- 9780307271020
- Seller
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Austin, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Knopf, 2009. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Remainder mark. Couple small scuff to jacket. .
Synopsis
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 a moment of reckoning: sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, sometimes just eluding their grasp.An exploration of love, need, and the ineluctable force of the past, Nocturnes reveals these individuals to us with extraordinary precision and subtlety, and with the arresting psychological and emotional detail that has marked all of Kazuo Ishiguro's acclaimed works of fiction.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 084895
- Title
- Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
- Author
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0307271021
- ISBN 13
- 9780307271020
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2013
Austin, Minnesota
About Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller
We have been selling books for over 15 years. We specialize in Americana, First Edition Literature, Golf, History, Railroad, Chess Medical, Western Americana, Mysteries, Economic History, Poetry, Aviation, Ornithology, Minnesota, Horses, Genealogy and Military Books.
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