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At the International Classical Guitar Competition in Montreal, top - flight musicians fly in from all over the world to compete in a gruelling week. A career can be made or lost here, and the slightest mishap - a lapse of memory, a shaking right hand, a broken fingernail - can ruin years of preparation. More than a decade ago Toby made the finals in a similar competition but suffered a breakdown and is only now venturing back into the fray. Middle - aged Lucy is tired of playing bar mitzvahs and weddings and is determined to perform the recital of her life. Trace is a kayaking teenager from the West Coast who seems careless in her talent. Judges and contestants alike battle and scheme to achieve what they most desire here. There is much more than pretty music being performed on this stage.
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On "Exile"
"This is a wise, funny, sad, and compassionate book. Carlos's chagrin and pain are palpable, but Ireland holds out hope that as a clever man with a talent, he may transcend his shallow past and desperate present."--"Quill & Quire"
"It may sound unlikely, but Ireland has managed to create a page-turner of a novel about a classical guitar competition: You want to know who will make it to the next round, and who will win."--Sarah Greene "National Post "
"Author Ann Ireland, whose first book, A Certain Mr. Takahashi, also deals with classic music, is expert at evoking the emotional roller coaster of competition life: the egos, the panic, the prep, the rhythms of the contest, the way the adjudicators talk about the musicians."--Susan Cole"Now Magazine" (02/07/2013)
"This is a wise, funny, sad, and compassionate book. Carlos's chagrin and pain are palpable, but Ireland holds out hope that as a clever man with a talent, he may transcend his shallow past and desperate present."--"Quill & Quire"
"It may sound unlikely, but Ireland has managed to create a page-turner of a novel about a classical guitar competition: You want to know who will make it to the next round, and who will win."--Sarah Greene "National Post "
"Author Ann Ireland, whose first book, A Certain Mr. Takahashi, also deals with classic music, is expert at evoking the emotional roller coaster of competition life: the egos, the panic, the prep, the rhythms of the contest, the way the adjudicators talk about the musicians."--Susan Cole"Now Magazine" (02/07/2013)
"It may sound unlikely, but Ireland has managed to create a page-turner of a novel about a classical guitar competition: You want to know who will make it to the next round, and who will win."--Sarah Greene "National Post "
"Author Ann Ireland, whose first book, A Certain Mr. Takahashi, also deals with classic music, is expert at evoking the emotional roller coaster of competition life: the egos, the panic, the prep, the rhythms of the contest, the way the adjudicators talk about the musicians."--Susan Cole"Now Magazine" (02/07/2013)
It may sound unlikely, but Ireland has managed to create a page-turner of a novel about a classical guitar competition: You want to know who will make it to the next round, and who will win. - National Post
what Ireland does exceedingly well is mimic a creative mind under intense pressure. She has the ability to render acoustic sound in language that is beautiful and startling. What is perhaps most convincing is her depiction of Toby s struggle to integrate his music and his life, and to reclaim what the impetuousness of his youth cost him. - The Globe and Mail"
The stark frankness of the last few pages of "The Blue Guitar" are powerful and brave, the sort of writing one sees only from a writer in full command of her powers, a flaying depiction of intimate brutality and selfishness that one might well recognize from life but rarely sees in such unadorned form in fiction. - Vancouver Sun
Author Ann Ireland, whose first book, A Certain Mr. Takahashi, also deals with classic music, is expert at evoking the emotional roller coaster of competition life: the egos, the panic, the prep, the rhythms of the contest, the way the adjudicators talk about the musicians. - Now Magazine
Ireland (whose previous novel, Exile, was shortlisted for a 2002 Governor General s Literary Award) packs her tale with such vivid description that it is easy to imagine being among the competitors. She also engages in her trademark sensitive and unflinching investigation of relationships. - Quill & Quire"
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- PublisherReadHowYouWant
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1459663381
- ISBN 13 9781459663381
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages340
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