"Two-Part Inventions" begins when Suzanne, a concert pianist, dies suddenly of a stroke in the New York City apartment she shares with her producer husband Philip. Rather than mourn in peace, Philip becomes deeply paranoid: their life is based on a fraud and the acclaimed music the couple created is about to be exposed. Philip had built a career for his wife by altering her recordings, taking a portion of a song here and there, from recordings of other pianists. Syncing the alterations seamlessly, he created a piece of ...
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"Two-Part Inventions" begins when Suzanne, a concert pianist, dies suddenly of a stroke in the New York City apartment she shares with her producer husband Philip. Rather than mourn in peace, Philip becomes deeply paranoid: their life is based on a fraud and the acclaimed music the couple created is about to be exposed. Philip had built a career for his wife by altering her recordings, taking a portion of a song here and there, from recordings of other pianists. Syncing the alterations seamlessly, he created a piece of flawless music with Suzanne getting sole credit. In this urban, psychological novel, author Lynne Sharon Schwartz brilliantly guides the reader through a flawed marriage and calculated career. Beginning with Suzanne's death and moving backwards in time, Schwartz examines their life together, and her remarkable career, while contemplating the nature of truth, marriage and the pursuit of perfection.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Very good in very good jacket. Publisher's boards in dust jacket, very good, front flyleaf has small abrasion, perhaps from price sticker removal. Inscribed to poet Gerald Stern (d. 2023), "Great poet & great friend" and signed. Also with note, "Dear Jerry, Please let me know if you got this. I have sent it once before & also had the publisher send one. Welcome back to the North. Lynne." The two met and befriended each other in the late 1970s at the Iowa Writers' Conference.
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Near Fine in near fine jacket. Cloth backed boards in dust jacket, fine copy. Inscribed, "To Jewrry with love & long friendship, Lynne." Purchased in a group of books from the house of poet Gerald Stern in NJ.