The Music Room
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Picador
Published: March 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780312274702
Subjects: Popular American Fiction; Fiction; Fiction - General; General; Fiction / Literary; Reading Group Guide; Literary
First sentence: In the bicentennial year of our country's independence from Great Britain, a time when I imagined the American masses celebrative and awash with a sense of history and continuity, my wife of only four years decided it would be best for both of us if she moved in with her mother for a while-a trial separation, she said, though we both were so immediately relieved by the idea of parting, the real thing was bound to endure.