
The Prize Musick
Violetta Tarpinian(Author)
Lulu.com (Publisher)
Published on 20. October 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
484 pages
978-1-300-54713-6 (ISBN)
Description
Two parallel stories follow two couples, divided by three hundred years. The first couple, Claire and Mark, live in the early 2000's in the USA, the second couple, Edmund and Katherina, around the year 1700 in England. Both wives are foreigners in their husbands' countries, and after a prolonged absence abroad, attending to a dying parent, they each return to a husband inexplicably changed towards them, withdrawing emotional and physical intimacy. Through their husbands' clever manipulations they remain in a loveless marriage until they reconnect with an important part of their youth: playing a musical instrument, and the advent of a music teacher in each time frame. The modern Claire, a writer and poet, unravels the mystery of the estrangement from her husband through researching the life of a little known baroque composer: Gottfried Finger, who originated from Moravia, then one of the Czech provinces of the Hapsburg Empire, and lived and worked in London between 1686 and 1701.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Morrisville
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
695 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-300-54713-6 (9781300547136)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Though loosely based on narratives from Exodus, the First Book of the Torah (Old Testament), these stories are works of the imagination and therefore fiction, and the responsibility of the author.