![No image available](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/i/en20/no-book-image.png)
![No image available](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/i/en20/no-book-image.png)
Take Nothing with You : A Richly Absorbing Novel of Boyhood, Coming of Age, Confusion and Desire
by Gale, Patrick
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1472205332
- ISBN 13
- 9781472205339
- Seller
-
Mishawaka, Indiana, United States
2 Copies Available from This Seller
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Reviews
"There was … an awed hush as she sat back on her piano stool, thrust out a shapely sandalled foot to her left, gazed up at the top left-hand reaches of the church, took an audible breath as though about to sing, and began to play.
She didn't simply play the notes; she played as though urgently communicating. Listen! her playing said. This really matters!"
Take Nothing With You is the sixteenth novel by award-winning British author, Patrick Gale. In his fifties, after a concerning diagnosis and the resultant surgery, Eustace finds himself in isolation for some 48 hours. He has been advised to bring only what he can leave behind, and intends to fill the time reading a novel, but his close friend Naomi has planned ahead, presenting him with a disposable MP3 player loaded with cello pieces. Some are new to him; others are old favourites that flood him with memories of his youth.
Relieved of some rather unsuccessful lessons with an uninspiring teacher on a second-hand clarinet, the music recital that introduces eleven-year-old Eustace to the cello is a life-changing moment. And the idea that the beautiful and talented Carla Gold will give him lessons fills him with an overwhelming joy. Eustace has found his first love.
During his obligatory seclusion, when he is not immersed in the memories of his adolescence and those first-time encounters with love and passion, with music and sex, Eustace muses on his new love, Theo. The reader also gets glimpses of the life Eustace has led following those momentous years, the milestone events that have brought him to this point in his life.
Gale populates his novel with a marvellous cast of characters: many are kind and generous; some are staggeringly single-minded; others disappoint with their behaviour, being selfish, cruel or abusive. Eustace, though, is easy to love: an earnest boy on the cusp of teenage whose naïveté is utterly delightful.
Gale's descriptive prose is often exquisite: the significant moments in Eustace's life are so beautifully depicted, often poignant, sometimes joyful, that the reader cannot help, at times, but form a lump in the throat; some passages are bound to have the reader seeking out recordings of cello music. The Cloggies will appreciate the mention of Dutch treats; and the pasta sauce recipe cries out to be tried. More please, Mr Gale!
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Better World Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17089314-20
- Title
- Take Nothing with You : A Richly Absorbing Novel of Boyhood, Coming of Age, Confusion and Desire
- Author
- Gale, Patrick
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 1472205332
- ISBN 13
- 9781472205339
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
Terms of Sale
Better World Books
Better World Books wants every single one of its customers to be happy with their purchase. If you are not satisfied your purchase or simply find out that it was not the book you were looking for, please e-mail us at: help@betterworldbooks.com. We will get back to you as soon as possible with directions on how to return the book to our warehouse. Please keep in mind that because we deal mostly in used books, any extra components, such as CDs or access codes, are usually not included. CDs: If the book does include a CD, it will be noted in the book's description ("With CD!"). Otherwise, there is no CD included, even if the term is used in the book's title. Access Codes: Unless the book is described as "New," please assume that the book does *not* have an access code.