The Bellwether revivals
By: Benjamin Wood
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780771089312
Subjects: Brothers and sisters; College students; Fiction; Healing; Musical ability; University of Cambridge
Description: This story is told by Oscar, a young, bright working class man who has fallen in love with an upper-class Cambridge student, Iris, and thereby become entangled with a group of close friends. The group is led by Iris's charismatic, brilliant, possibly dangerous, brother, Eden -- a musical prodigy who believes he can adapt the theories of a forgotten Baroque composer to heal people. Oscar is persuaded into a series of disturbing experiments to prove Eden's claims. As the partition between genius and delusion blurs, the danger that awaits them all becomes desperately apparent.
Notes: "A novel"--Cover.