An Equal Music
A powerful love story from the author of A SUITABLE BOY
Published on 7. October 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
496 pages
978-0-7538-0773-6 (ISBN)
Description
'A masterpiece' Daily Mail
'Will still be read with pleasure and absorption decades from now' Spectator
'A wonder-work: irresistible, tense, deeply moving' Sunday Times
'An extraordinary book' Independent on Sunday
A chance sighting on a bus; a letter which should never have been read; a pianist with a secret that touches the heart of her music . . . AN EQUAL MUSIC is a book about love, about the love of a woman lost and found and lost again; it is a book about music and how the love of music can run like a passionate fugue through a life. It is the story of Michael, of Julia, and of the love that binds them.
'A novel that can stand being reread and reread, but the first time round is an emotional cliffhanger ... secure a copy for yourself, settle down, and prepare for the unforgettable' Sunday Times
'Will still be read with pleasure and absorption decades from now' Spectator
'A wonder-work: irresistible, tense, deeply moving' Sunday Times
'An extraordinary book' Independent on Sunday
A chance sighting on a bus; a letter which should never have been read; a pianist with a secret that touches the heart of her music . . . AN EQUAL MUSIC is a book about love, about the love of a woman lost and found and lost again; it is a book about music and how the love of music can run like a passionate fugue through a life. It is the story of Michael, of Julia, and of the love that binds them.
'A novel that can stand being reread and reread, but the first time round is an emotional cliffhanger ... secure a copy for yourself, settle down, and prepare for the unforgettable' Sunday Times
Reviews / Votes
Secure a copy for yourself, settle down and prepare for the unforgettable * SUNDAY TIMES * The finest novel about music written in English * DAILY TELEGRAPH * A hauntingly beautiful story about loss and love, and the power of music to transform human experience * MAIL ON SUNDAY * Will still be read with pleasure and absorption decades from now * SPECTATOR * A masterpiece ... as clear, lovely and civilised as a Schubert quartet * DAILY MAIL * Seth's novel is a wonder-work: irresistible, tense, deeply moving * SUNDAY TIMES * Seth offers emotional sensitivity of the rarest order and a poignancy that invites an almost painful empathy * ECONOMIST * The fullest portrait I have ever read in fiction of a musician's relationship to his music ... brilliant * DAILY TELEGRAPH * This book is music ... It's an extraordinary book that finds music in everything and everything in music * INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY * Seth succeeds in the rare and beautiful achievement of articulating musical experience * THE TIMES * A virtuoso performance, wrapping love, life and music into an absorbing read * EVENING STANDARD *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
338 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7538-0773-6 (9780753807736)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Previous edition
Vikram Seth
An Equal Music
Book
10/1999
Orion mass market paperback
€28.66
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Person
Vikram Seth has written five books of poetry, an opera libretto, and a book of other libretti. He is perhaps best known for his acclaimed novel, A SUITABLE BOY, one of the most beloved and widely read books of recent times, as well as his novels THE GOLDEN GATE and AN EQUAL MUSIC. He is the author of two highly regarded works of non-fiction, FROM HEAVEN LAKE and TWO LIVES.