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The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt
Engelsk Paperback
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The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt
Engelsk Paperback

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Longlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Literary Award

Tracy Farr’s acclaimed debut novel is the fictional memoir of Dame Lena Gaunt: musician, octogenarian, junkie.

''Compelling reading'' The Listener 

I hold one regret from that day: that I put my first love, my cello, aside. But it was to take up a bigger love, a greater thing; it was to step into the future. Music''s Most Modern Instrument. And I was to become Music''s Most Modern Musician.

Tracy Farr''s debut novel is the fictional memoir of Dame Lena Gaunt: musician, octogenarian, junkie. Documentary filmmaker Mo Patterson approaches veteran musician Lena Gaunt after watching her play at a festival in Perth: her first performance in 20 years.

While initially suspicious of Mo''s intentions and reluctant to have her privacy invaded, Lena finds herself sharing stories from her past.

From a solitary childhood in Malacca and a Perth boarding school, to a glittering career in Jazz-age Sydney, to quiet domesticity in a New-Zealand backwater, Lena''s is a life characterized by the pull of the sea, the ebb and flow of passion and loss, and her enduring relationship with that extraordinary instrument, the theremin. 

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
304
ISBN-13:
9781910709054
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1910709050
Udg. Dato:
26 maj 2016
Længde:
28mm
Bredde:
198mm
Højde:
131mm
Forlag:
Gallic Books
Oplagsdato:
26 maj 2016
Forfatter(e):
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