An Ungrateful Instrument

An Ungrateful Instrument
Michael Meehan
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NZ$ 37.99
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NZ$ 30.39
Hardback
h234 x 153mm - 224pg
1 Feb 2023 AU
International import eta 7-19 days
9780645565300
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' I want to tell a story. A long but simple story. A tale of long recovery. A tale of love. A tale of lost and found. ' In his remarkable new novel, award-winning Australian author Michael Meehan sensitively explores the links between generational conflict, family, and the creative act. At its heart An Ungrateful Instrument is a novel that portrays a son' s struggle to be more than a mere instrument of the father' s ambition. Antoine Forqueray and later his son Jean-Baptiste, were each brought up as child prodigies to the court of Louis XIV. Together, they were said to be the only musicians in France who could play the father' s brilliant, eccentric music for the viola da gamba. In an imaginative masterstroke the story is told by Jean-Baptiste' s highly attuned deaf-mute sister, Charlotte-Elisabeth. Threaded throughout, deep in a forest an old man creates the gift of a special viol for the boy, Jean Baptiste. This is a novel that can almost be heard like music, as it soars in language, theme, and a wisdom that both embodies and transcends its period setting. ' An imagination of another order. ' - The Australian

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