The Music Room by Dennis Mcfarland
Dennis McFarland's acclaimed debut novel, hailed by the New York Times Book Review as "a rare pleasure . . . Remarkable from its beginning to its surprising, satisfying endMusician Marty Lambert's life is already falling apart when he receives the phone call that changes everything. His brother, Perry, has killed himself in New York, and Marty--with his marriage on the rocks and his record company sliding into insolvency--decides to leave San Francisco to investigate exactly what went wrong. His trip sends him headlong into the life his only brother left behind--his pleasures and disappointments, his friends, his lovely girlfriend, Jane--and finally, to the home they shared growing up in Virginia. Along the way, through memories and dreams, Marty relives their complicated upbringing as the children of talented, volatile musicians and alcoholics. Through the tragedy, Marty finally faces the demons of his past, ones he pretended he had buried long ago, to emerge on the other side of grief, toward solace and a more hopeful future.
Reading The Music Room has given me enormous pleasureAlong the way would crop up sentences, sometimes merely a word, that would make me catch my breath. Writing out of a true fictional imagination seems so rare now. Readers who look for this and keep hoping for it have a discovery to make in The Music Room. -Eudora Welty
I read The Music Room in a condition that can only be described as rapt. McFarland is the real thing, and this extraordinary book fills me with admiration. It's the kind of book you press into people's hands, telling them if they don't read it you'll never speak to them again. -Frank Conroy
An amazing novel . . . Its precision of language and the haunting beauty of its figures are such as to be unforgettable. -Walker Percy
I read The Music Room in a condition that can only be described as rapt. McFarland is the real thing, and this extraordinary book fills me with admiration. It's the kind of book you press into people's hands, telling them if they don't read it you'll never speak to them again. -Frank Conroy
An amazing novel . . . Its precision of language and the haunting beauty of its figures are such as to be unforgettable. -Walker Percy
DENNIS McFARLAND is the author of six previous novels: Letter from Point Clear, Prince Edward, Singing Boy, A Face at the Window, School for the Blind, and The Music Room. His short fiction has appeared in The American Scholar, The New Yorker, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and Best American Short Stories, among other publications. He has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the Wallace E. Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, where he has also taught creative writing. Nostalgia was awarded the Michael Shaara Prize for Excellence in Civil War Fiction. McFarland lives in rural Vermont with his wife, the writer and poet Michelle Blake.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781504074155 |
| ISBN 10 | 1504074157 |
| Title | The Music Room |
| Author | Dennis Mcfarland |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Open Road Media |
| Year published | 2022-04-07 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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