The Piano Shop On The Left Bank - Softcover

Carhart, T E

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099288230 ISBN 13: 9780099288237

Verlag: Vintage, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

T. E. Carhart, an American living in Paris, is intrigued by a piano repair shop hidden down a street near his apartment., When he finally gains admittance to the secretive world of the atelier, he finds himself in an enormous glass-roofed workshop filled with dozens of pianos. His love affair with this most magical of instruments and its music is reawakened. Packed with delicate cameos of Parisians and reflections on how pianos work and their glorious history, The Piano Shop on the Left Bank is an atmospheric and absorbing journey to an older way of life.

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Críticas

"Quirky and tender...beguiling" (Rose Tremain Sunday Telegraph)

"A love affair with the piano... A minor classic" (Times Literary Supplement)

"Captivating...full of knowledge...suffused with Parisian sensations...he can choose words that make us feel and hear the instruments he plays...when you close it you feel you have been on holiday" (Sunday Times)

"Charming...a cool, autumnal breeze of a book...written out of love" (Guardian)

Biografía del autor

T. E. Carhart is an American who lives in Paris. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank is his debut novel. His second book, Across the Endless River, was published in 2009.

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0099288230
• ISBN 13: 9780099288237
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256