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Robert Ford
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| Title: |
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The Student Conductor |
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English |
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Hardcover |
| Pages: |
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304 |
| Date: |
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2003-09-29 |
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0399150374 |
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Putnam Adult |
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1.21 pounds |
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6.26 x 9.3 x 1.04 inches |
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First Edition |
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2 Lydia Marmorstein (United Kingdom), Nette (USA: NJ) |
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2 Keri (United Kingdom), skripka (USA: MA) |
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Product Description
In this daring first novel of political, sexual, and artistic awakening, a young symphony conductor travels to Germany in the autumn of 1989, where he falls in love with a recent East German defector, and has a brutal encounter with the prewar conductor who becomes his great life teacher.
Cooper Barrow has returned to the competitive fray of the orchestral world after eight years of exile-bringing his prodigious talent and insecurity into Frankfurt and Berlin just at the moment that the Berlin Wall falls. Barrow is to study under the cruel hand of a capricious maestro, Karlheinz Ziegler-a man who carries boundless shame from his days in a Nazi concentration camp, and who will force Barrow to define himself within a morally ambiguous world.
But when Barrow encounters the beautiful and boldly sexual Petra Vogel, an oboist with poisonous secrets, he sets in motion a complex psychological dance of guilt, music, and love.
With remarkable intensity and physicality, Robert Ford delivers a pitch-perfect debut, brimming with intrigue and revelation, where passion flowers into desire on every page.
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