American Mark Trigger travels to 1960s Venice to write a biography of Adriana Grafanas, a famous opera singer, and is drawn into her world--a film director courts her for a movie, a princess tries to steal her man. In the process Trigger discovers his passion--for men. By the au…
What is a "musical novel"? This book defines the genre as musical not primarily in terms of its content, but in its form. The musical novel crosses medial boundaries, aspiring to techniques, structures, and impressions similar to those of music. It takes music as a model for its…
The author analyzes two groups of musical novels: novels that take music as a model for their construction - including jazz novels by Toni Morrison and Michael Ondaatje - and novels based on Bach's Goldberg Variations.
The celebrated opera house, La Fenice, has seen its share of death. But nothing so horrific and violent as that of conductor, Maestro Helmut Wellauer, poisoned during a performance of La Traviata. Can Commissario Guido Brunetti solve the crime?
Twelve stories on life as seen by a flute player. He is James Wallace of Nashville, 40, an enterprising 1960s anti-war hippie who instead of going to Canada joined the U.S. Marine Corps as a bandsman and avoided the war that way.