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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Skip first 13 pages,
By CXC (North Beach) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Gerontius (Paperback)
The initial section of this book has nothing to do with the plot and is very portentious and incomprehensible. Both I and my wife found it off-puting. However, starting on page 13, this is a superb, beautiful, and thought-provoking novel that I recommend unhesitatingly.
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Gerontius,
By Bernard Hughes (London, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Gerontius (Paperback)
Wistful, poignant and beautifully written, this is a touching and elegaic novel. Blending fact with imaginary events, Hamilton Paterson takes an extraordinary, but true, event from Elgar's life and constructs around it a simple but fabulous narrative about a man at a creative crisis. Thoroughly enjoyable.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Nuance and compassion in imaginary Elgar biography,
By A Customer
This review is from: Gerontius (Hardcover)
Music lovers as well as those who enjoy fine writing will find Hamilton-Paterson's imaginary account of a voyage up the Amazon by Edward Elgar not only entertaining and thought-provoking, but also ultimately very revealing of the contradictions and conflicts in Elgar's character. Hamilton-Paterson's research has been as thorough as his sympathy for his protagonist is obviously deep. This novel won the Whitbread prize for best first fiction
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Gerontius by James Hamilton-Paterson (Paperback - 1990)
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