The Great Concert of the Night by Jonathan Buckley
Now in paperback: A mosaic-like novel about love, loss and looking.
"A quietly brilliant writer, almost eccentric in his craftsmanship" * The Sunday Times *
Why isn't Jonathan Buckley better known? His novel of love, death and melancholy comedy, The Great Concert of the Night, is captivating. -- John Banville
Ultimately, Buckley's novel is both very entertaining and very sad-a book of high artifice that feels true. Addictive, elegiac, and pristinely paced. * Kirkus Reviews, starred review *
[O]ne reads this beautifully written book because the author provides food for thought with reflections on love, the imagination and death, laced with citations from Marcus Aurelius, Blaise Pascal and the Christian mystic Hildegard von Bingen. There is also a drolly comic side to the story . . . -- Bruce Boucher * The New York Times Book Review *
Admirable and frequently beautiful . . . aptly reflects the capriciousness of memory . . . * Wall Street Journal *
The Great Concert of the Night, Jonathan Buckley's beguiling tenth novel, is . . . an occasion for speculation, reflection, distraction, and aimless wonder. . . . This superb novel generates that strangely familiar sensation that something wonderful has been revealed, momentarily. -- Ron Slate
What a pleasure to be immersed-lost really-in this elegant, erudite, seductive, and deeply moving chronicle of a sensibility and a life. -- Carole Maso
Buckley is a talented verbal painter, with a fine eye for detail. -- Mary Fitzgerald * New Statesman *
Why isn't Jonathan Buckley better known? His novel of love, death and melancholy comedy, The Great Concert of the Night, is captivating. -- John Banville
Ultimately, Buckley's novel is both very entertaining and very sad-a book of high artifice that feels true. Addictive, elegiac, and pristinely paced. * Kirkus Reviews, starred review *
[O]ne reads this beautifully written book because the author provides food for thought with reflections on love, the imagination and death, laced with citations from Marcus Aurelius, Blaise Pascal and the Christian mystic Hildegard von Bingen. There is also a drolly comic side to the story . . . -- Bruce Boucher * The New York Times Book Review *
Admirable and frequently beautiful . . . aptly reflects the capriciousness of memory . . . * Wall Street Journal *
The Great Concert of the Night, Jonathan Buckley's beguiling tenth novel, is . . . an occasion for speculation, reflection, distraction, and aimless wonder. . . . This superb novel generates that strangely familiar sensation that something wonderful has been revealed, momentarily. -- Ron Slate
What a pleasure to be immersed-lost really-in this elegant, erudite, seductive, and deeply moving chronicle of a sensibility and a life. -- Carole Maso
Buckley is a talented verbal painter, with a fine eye for detail. -- Mary Fitzgerald * New Statesman *
Jonathan Buckley is the acclaimed author of Ghost MacIndoe; So he takes the Dog and Nostalgia. The Great Concert of the Night is his tenth novel. He was the 2015 winner of the BBC National Short Story Award and has also written several guidebooks to various parts of Italy. He lives in Hove.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781908745774 |
| ISBN 10 | 1908745770 |
| Title | The Great Concert of the Night |
| Author | Jonathan Buckley |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Sort of Books |
| Year published | 2018-05-08 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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