- Pianists, Fiction, Holocaust survivors
Against the backdrop of Darwin, that small, tropical hothouse of a port, half-outback, half-oriental, lying at the tip of northern Australia, a young and newly arrived southerner encounters the 'maestro', a Viennese refugee with a shadowed past. The occasion is a piano lesson, the first of many.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and contemplative.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Peter Goldsworthy
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 149
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Angus & Robertson, HarperCollins
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780207168017
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