For You: The Libretto for Michael Berkeley's Opera

Name: For You: The Libretto for Michael Berkeley's Opera
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Ian McEwan
ISBN: 9780099526995

Ian McEwan

05/06/2008
Vintage

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Couverture de For You: The Libretto for Michael Berkeley's Opera par Ian McEwan

Résumé

Revue de presse The characters are etched with impressive economy by McEwan ― The Evening Standard Présentation de l'éditeur Charles Frieth, pre-eminent composer, conductor and prodigious womaniser, is preparing for a performance of one of his early works, and the world premiere of Demonic Aubade. Obstinate and myopic, he is oblivious to the growing turmoil around him; his wife's poor health and sadness; the exhausted efforts of his secretary, and the destructive passion of his housekeeper, Maria.As the first performance draws near, the maestro is suddenly awoken to the chaos, and as Charles struggles to regain control of his life, a terrible tragedy begins to unfold. Biographie de l'auteur Ian McEwan is the critically acclaimed author of seventeen novels and two short story collections. His first published work, a collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels include The Child in Time, which won the 1987 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award; The Cement Garden; Enduring Love; Amsterdam, which won the 1998 Booker Prize; Atonement; Saturday; On Chesil Beach; Solar; Sweet Tooth; The Children Act; Nutshell; and Machines Like Me, which was a number-one bestseller. Atonement, Enduring Love, The Children Act and On Chesil Beach have all been adapted for the big screen.