- Taschenbuch: 178 Seiten
- Verlag: Picador (Januar 2000)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0312252854
- ISBN-13: 978-0312252854
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,3 x 12,4 x 1,5 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.6 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (18 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.744.943 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Patricia Dolan defines herself by her job as an art historian and her identity as an Irish American. When she is 41, the combination of the two proves explosive, leading her to a rough cottage in West Cork. In Ireland she has for company only her own words, one elderly neighbor, and "The Music Lesson," a beautiful Vermeer executed on wood. As she anticipates the arrival of Mickey, her distant relative and lover, Patricia slowly, tantalizingly reveals the events that have led to her isolation. Before Mickey had appeared one day outside her office at New York's Frick Museum, she had become inured to loss and death, a high-functioning depressive. But her 25-year-old third cousin once removed reawakens her. Alas, his interest is both personal and political, and she is soon involved in a plot to kidnap and ransom the Vermeer, property of the Queen. The painting, she tells herself fervently, "is an instrument of magic. Perhaps now it is also an instrument of change, a talisman, the charm that will force powerful people to pay attention and take decisive action at last."
The Music Lesson is far from your everyday, action-packed IRA saga. Instead, Katharine Weber's second novel is very much like the intimate portrait her heroine so lovingly describes--an exquisite miniature in which images, ideas, and deep emotions keep coming out of the woodwork. --Kerry Fried -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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"A wonderful book." --"Washington Post"
"As intricate as an acrostic....Weber's skill is such that her puzzle engages the reader's attention throughout."--"The New Yorker"
"Throughout Weber's tricky, tension-filled plot, double-crosses, murder, and art forgeries dramatize the deeper themes of love, refuge, and loss."--"Entertainment Weekly"" "
"As intricate as an acrostic....Weber's skill is such that her puzzle engages the reader's attention throughout."--"The New Yorker"
"Throughout Weber's tricky, tension-filled plot, double-crosses, murder, and art forgeries dramatize the deeper themes of love, refuge, and loss."--"Entertainment Weekly"" "
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I loved this novel, loved the fine craft of it, the elegance of the way the story unfolded. It was like sipping fine wine. It reminded me of the spare, perfect novels of Penelope Fitzgerald.
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A great find. All thrillers should be written this way: beautiful descriptive writing, all the time drawing you into a web of art and deception. I found the characters real and believable. And I never saw the ending coming. This book is making the rounds among my bookclub friends to rave reviews.
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Can an old caper be brought up to date? Katharine Weber's The Music Lesson would like us to think so. With the hot topic of art history, and re-examination of the dutch master Vermeer, whose works have been recently mounted in celebrated exhibits, and other books about this painter, notably Tracy Chevalier's wonderfully satisfying The Girl with the Pearl Earring, the author involves us in personal tragedy, self-redemption through love and scholarship, all with sex as an easy bedfellow. From there it's a quick slide into crime, via politics, Irish-British ones at that. Was I the only one to guess the ending of this book a chapter earlier? Seems like deja vu to me.
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What one will do for Love
I found the story interesting from the perspective of how one's values can totally change due to love. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. Mai 2000 von John C. Shaw
art and politics
What do art historians and radical Irish political groups have in common? In this book, a (fictional) Vermeer painting owned by the Queen of England. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 19. Januar 2000 von Kimberly Rhodes
A wonderful discovery of both a book and an author!
Why isn't this writer better known? If you love Ann Tyler, Laurie Colwin, Sue Miller, Elinor Lipman, then this is a writer for you! Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 8. Januar 2000 veröffentlicht
Great Book at Unbelievable Denial
Love the book. Love the parts about the art world. Found the main character's willingness to believe in something (love) that obviously wasn't there somewhat disappointing. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 8. November 1999 von John C. Shaw
what a wonderful book
Like Brian Moore, this is an author who knows how to combine the literary and the suspenseful. What a little masterpiece this is! Why is it not better known? Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 8. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
A beautiful story
Historical art expert Patricia Dolan has never fully recovered from the death of her daughter that subsequently led to her divorce. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 5. September 1999 veröffentlicht
A novel reflecting our struggling through our everyday lives
It's indeed a gripping and breathtaking novel or, more specifically, a journal showing the life of a 41-year-old lady, Patricia Dolan. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
Fabulous read. I pray a motion picture will follow.
Weber doesn't miss a detail as she weaves us through a journey of fine art, militia, and international intrigue. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. April 1999 von Nick Ryan
A very fine writer but a book that doesn't hold up.
The combination of truth and fiction does not hold up in this book. This is really about a woman who has had a terrible loss and how she grasps at love only to be disappointed. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 25. März 1999 veröffentlicht
Unique, superb psychological thriller
Historical art expert Patricia Dolan has never fully recovered from the death of her daughter that subsequently led to her divorce. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 15. März 1999 veröffentlicht
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