The Courage Consort
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- Synopsis
- Three novellas filled with &“gallows humor and a sense of real peril,&” by the acclaimed author of The Book of Strange New Things (The New York Times). The bestselling author of The Crimson Petal and the White &“draws his characters with assured comic efficiency&” (The Guardian), using &“evocative language&” to offer up &“intriguing glimpses of unfamiliar worlds&” (Los Angeles Times), in these acclaimed novellas. In &“The Courage Consort,&” an a cappella vocal ensemble is sequestered in a Belgian château to rehearse a monstrously complicated new piece, but competing artistic temperaments and sexual needs create as much discordance as the avant-garde music. In &“The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps,&” a lonely woman joins an archaeological dig at Whitby Abbey and unearths a mystery involving a long-hidden murder. And in &“The Fahrenheit Twins,&” strange children, identical in all but gender, are left alone at the icy zenith of the world by their anthropologist parents to create their own ritual civilization. From a wildly inventive author whose novel The Book of Strange New Things was named one of 2014&’s best reads by everyone from the New Yorker to io9, The Courage Consort is an eclectic collection of well-told tales, in which Michel Faber &“marches on, establishing himself as one of the most versatile fiction writers working today&” (Kirkus Reviews). &“Readers will again be immersed in the intense worlds he creates.&” —Publishers Weekly
- Copyright:
- 2004
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 240 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780547538389
- Publisher:
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Date of Addition:
- 04/12/24
- Copyrighted By:
- status in your country.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.