Discord by Jeremy Cooper
Charting the course of the intense and at times fractious relationship betweenmiddle-aged composer Rebekah Rosen and the young star-saxophonist Evie Bennet,Discordis a wry and insightfulexploration of creative collaboration.‘Easily the best novel I’ve read this decade’
— Olivia Laing, Guardian (praise for Brian)
‘Brian is affecting, funny and, at 184 pages, a skilfully compressed chronicle of one man’s life and the cornucopia of film that enriches it.’
— Max Liu, Financial Times (praise for Brian)
‘Cooper does a superb job of inhabiting this singular character’s point of view, and of deftly weaving into the narrative Brian’s thoughts and feelings about the films he sees. I was delighted by the book’s gentle humor and lucid prose style, and I can think of no finer exploration of what can happen when a person is fully open and attentive to art, and how a shared passion for art can connect people to one another.’
— Sigrid Nunez, New Yorker (praise for Brian)
‘There’s a strange magic to Jeremy Cooper’s writing. The way he puts words together creates an incantatory effect. Reading him is to be spellbound, then. I have no idea how he does it, only that I am seduced.’
— Ben Myers, author of The Offing (praise for Brian)
‘What makes Jeremy Cooper’s seventh novel appealing and convincing is the author’s serene prose and tender, understated empathy…. This is an affectionate, thoughtful portrait of a gentle soul.’
— David Collard, Times Literary Supplement (praise for Brian)
Jeremy Cooper is a writer and art historian, author of seven previous novels and several works of non-fiction, including the standard work on nineteenth century furniture, studies of young British artists in the 1990s, and, in 2019, the British Museum’s catalogue of artists’ postcards. Early on he appeared in the first twenty-four of BBC’s Antiques Roadshow and, in 2018, won the first Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize for Ash before Oak.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781804272268 |
| ISBN 10 | 1804272264 |
| Title | Discord |
| Author | Jeremy Cooper |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| Year published | 2026-06-16 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |