Author: MARTELL, OWEN
Title: Intermission
Description: London: Random House UK, 2014. First Edition. First Printing; Paperback. ISBN: 0099558823. 7.7 X 5.0 X 0.6 inches; 169 pages; Soft cover has black spine with white lettering. NEW book. Pages are clean and tight. Superb. * Irish Times * The mood music conjured up is evocative, reflective and muted...Martell's wonderful portrait...is as vivid as it is sympathetic...Lingers in the mind like an elusive, mournful melody. * Daily Mail * A sensitive depiction of an artist in mourning...A delicate and affecting work of fiction...[Martell] writes with elegant precision...Intermission is an impressive English-language debut, a deft and sensitive depiction of a family shadowed by loss. * Financial Times * This fine if elusive novel about a jazz giant echoes his art in both its style and its story-telling...A novel as oblique, elusive but quietly hypnotic as its hero's own playing. -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent * An introspective, original novel...It is hard to write about figures of recent history in a way that feels authentic and true, but Bill Evans is drawn here in all his quirkiness and mutability...This novel stands as a well-written lament. It is a clear-eyed exploration of a jazz intermission, of the forced break in the chaos, and an apt tribute to a music so full of life that even a pause, a silence, can go down howling. -- Esi Edugyan * Guardian. New .

Keywords: 0099558823 9780099558828; Fiction; Musicians; England; Music Scene; 1960s; Cultural History; Social History; Musical Groups; Fiction Cultural History English/British History Music/Opera/Songs Social History