Appassionata by Eva Hoffman
Selected as one of Oprah.com s 20 Tantalizing Beach ReadsSelected as a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Isabel Merton is a renowned concert pianist, whose performances aremarked bya rareintensity of feeling.At the height of her career, she feels increasingly torn between the compellingmusical realmshe deeply inhabits, and her fragmented itinerant artist s life, with its frequent flights, anonymous hotels, and brief, arbitrary encounters. Away from her New York home on a European tour, Isabel meets a political exile from a war-torn country, a mandriven by a ranklingsense of injustice and a powerful desire tovindicatehis cause and avenge hispeople.As their paths cross in several cities, they are drawn to each other both by their differences and their seemingly parallel passions until a menacing incident throws her into a creative crisis, and forces herto reevaluateher lover's actions, and her ownmotives.In this story of contemporary love and conflict, Hoffman illuminates the currents and undercurrents of our time, assheexplores the luminous and dark faces of romanticism, and those perennial human yearnings, frustrations, and moral choices that canlead to destructiveness, or the richest art.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781590514573 |
| ISBN 10 | 1590514572 |
| Title | Appassionata |
| Author | Eva Hoffman |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Other Press (NY) |
| Year published | 2011-05-03 |
| Number of pages | 265 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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