
The Music Lesson
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The woman she describes is the subject of the stolen Vermeer of the novel's title. Patricia is alone with this exquisite painting in a remote Irish cottage by the sea. How she arrived in such an unlikely circumstance is one part of the story Patricia tells us: about her father, a policeman who raised her to believe deeply in the cause of a united Ireland; the art history career that has sustained her since the numbing loss of her daughter; and the arrival of Mickey O'Driscoll, her dangerously charming, young Irish cousin, which has led to her involvement in this high-stakes crime.
How her sublime vigil becomes a tale of loss, regret, and transformation is the rest of her story. The silent woman in the priceless painting becomes, for Patricia, a tabula rasa, a presence that at different moments seems to judge, to approve, or to offer wisdom. As Patricia immerses herself in the turbulent passions of her Irish heritage and ponders her aesthetic fidelity to the serene and understated pleasures of Dutch art, she discovers, in her silent communion, a growing awareness of all that has been hidden beneath the surface of her own life. And she discovers that she possesses the knowledge of what she must do to preserve the things she values most.
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KATHARINE WEBER is the author of the novels True Confections, Triangle, The Little Women, and Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear. She lives in Connecticut, Ireland, and Paris with her husband, the cultural historian Nicholas Fox Weber, and is a thesis advisor in the graduate writing program at Columbia University.
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- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- A Note to the Reader
- Epigraph
- 19th of January, raining
- 20th of January, still raining
- 21st of January, clear and cold
- 22nd of January, foggy, rainy, sunny
- Later, afternoon
- 24th of January, overcast, drizzle, fog
- 25th of January, sunny and clear
- 27th of January, blustery, raw, dark, awful at the moment
- 28th of January, foggy
- 29th of January, cold and clear
- 31st of January, blustery, raw, clear
- 1st of February, very dark
- 3rd of February, every kind of weather
- Reader's Guide
- Recommended Further Reading
- About the Author
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