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Powers, Richard

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Seventy-year-old avant-garde composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police outside. His DIY microbiology lab: the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to extract music from rich patterns beyond the ear’s ability to hear, has come to the attention of Homeland Security.

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Publish Date: 31/07/2014

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BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED BEWILDERMENT AND THE OVERSTORYLONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDComposer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His amateur science lab – the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to find music in the most surprising places – has aroused the suspicions of Homeland Security. Panicked by the raid, Els turns fugitive. As an internet-fuelled hysteria erupts, Els – the ‘Bioterrorist Bach’ – pays a final visit to the people he loves, those who shaped his musical journey. Together, they hatch a plan to turn this disastrous collision with state security into a work that will reawaken a nationwide audience to the glorious sounds and symphonies that lie hidden all around them.’Sweet, funny, sad and haunting… A formidably intelligent, ecstatically noisy novel’ Guardian

Additional information

Weight 272 g
Dimensions 200 × 130 × 25 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

384

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K