[PDF] The Book Of Appassionata eBook

Author : Jilly Cooper
Publisher : Random House
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 20,24 MB
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1409031942

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The most fun you can have under a Tenor... Abigail Rosen, nicknamed Appassionata, was the sexiest, most flamboyant violinist in classical music, but she was also the loneliest and the most exploited girl in the world. When a dramatic suicide attempt destroyed her violin career, she set her sights on the male-dominated heights of the conductor's rostrum. Given the chance to take over the Rutminster Symphony Orchestra, Abby is ecstatic, not realising the RSO is in hock up to its neck and is composed of the wildest bunch of musicians ever to blow a horn or caress a fiddle. Abby finds it increasingly difficult to control her undisciplined rabble and pretend she is not madly attracted to the fatally glamorous horn player, Viking O'Neill, who claims droit de seigneur over every pretty woman joining the orchestra. And then Rannaldini, arch-fiend and international maestro, rolls up with Machiavellian plans of his own to sabotage the RSO. Effervescent as champagne, Jilly Cooper's novel brings back old favourites like Rupert and Taggie Campbell-Black, but also ends triumphantly with a rampageous orchestral tour of Spain and the high drama of an international piano competition. ------------------------------------- Praise for Appassionata: 'Delicious ... I could not put the damned thing down' Sunday Express 'A boisterous tale of sex and Chopin' Tatler 'Sexy, dazzling protagonists... the humour comes thick and fast' Daily Express

Author : Eva Hoffman
Publisher : Random House
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,54 MB
Release : 2011-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 144648534X

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Isabel Merton is a renowned concert pianist whose playing is marked by rare intensity. At the height of her career, she feels increasingly torn between the expressive musical realm she inhabits, and the fragmented life she leads as an itinerant artist, with its frequent flights, anonymous hotels and arbitrary encounters. Then Isabel meets Anzor Islikhanov, a political exile from war-torn Chechnya driven by a powerful desire to help and avenge his people. As their paths cross in several cities, they are drawn to each other - until a menacing incident throws Isabel into crisis.

Author : David Citino
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 10,21 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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Sister Mary Appassionata has been talking herself into David Citino's poetry collections for many years. Charming when she wants to be, pushy by nature and by vocation, determined to say what she has to say, Sister Mary has evolved into a recognized literary personality, very popular with readers of Citino's poetry. She has now persuaded both poet and press that she is ready for her own breakthrough book, arguing that everything she has said in the past is still true and that she also has important new observations to make. The Book of Appassionata presents Sister Mary's new poems and brings together in one volume all her poems from Citino's previous collections.

Author : Carol Doumani
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,31 MB
Release : 2022-03-10
Category :
ISBN : 9780578282497

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Through words and musical reference, Appassionata tells the story of an illicit love affair between immigrants from two cultures who work in privileged households in a Southern California beach community. What begins as an innocent flirtation, spirals into infatuation, then cascades into destructive passion, causing the lovers to jeopardize their hard-won jobs and the lives they carefully constructed in the United States. Ultimately, what began in love ends in treachery and tragedy.Structured after Beethoven's Sonata #23, Opus 57, known as the Appassionata, the novel uses musical references in counterpoint to the written word, as the story weaves the lives of the characters first together, then apart.

Author : Elsa D'Esterre-Keeling
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 12,88 MB
Release : 2008-08-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781436963855

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.