Great Concert of the Night
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781681373959
Subjects: Fiction, psychological; Actresses, fiction
Description: David has just spent New Year's Eve alone, watching Le Grand Concert de la Nuit, a film in which his former lover Imogen starred. In the early hours of the new year, consoled and tormented by her ethereal presence, he begins to write. What follows is a brilliantly various journal, chronicling a year in the life of a thinking man. David works as a curator at the ailing Sanderson-Perceval Museum in southern England, whose small collection of porcelain, musical instruments, crystals, velvet mushrooms, and glass jellyfish is as eccentric and idiosyncratic as the long-dead collectors' tastes.