The Silver Swan by Elena Delbanco
Alexander Feldmann is a musician of international renown, a man whose prodigious talent, striking good looks and charm prove irresistible to all who meet him. After years of hunting, Alexander acquires a glorious instrument, the Silver Swan. One of the few remaining cellos crafted by Antonio Stradivari, the Silver Swan's clarity and beauty of tone are unmatched. The maestro has one child, Mariana, who by the age of 19 emerges as a star concert cellist in her own right. When a secret emerges from her father's past, the fate of the silver swan is in peril.
Elena Delbanco has recently retired after teaching for twenty-seven years at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Before moving to Ann Arbor, she worked at Bennington College in Vermont, where she and her husband, the writer Nicholas Delbanco, together with the late John Gardner, founded the Bennington Writing Workshops. Delbanco has long been engaged in the world of classical music. Her father was the renowned cellist Bernard Greenhouse (of the Beaux Arts Trio), who owned the Countess of Stainlein ex-Paganini Stradivarius violoncello of 1707. The imagined fate of that instrument, upon her father's death, inspired The Silver Swan, her first novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781590517161 |
| ISBN 10 | 1590517164 |
| Title | The Silver Swan |
| Author | Elena Delbanco |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Other Press LLC |
| Year published | 2015-05-21 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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