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The Courage Consort

By Michel Faber

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| Hardcover | 9780151010615

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With his elegant prose, distinctive imagination, and deep empathy, the bestselling author of The Crimson Petal and the White once again dazzles us in three novellas. "The Courage Consort" tells of an a capella vocal ensemble sequestered in a Belgian chateau to rehearse a monstrously complicated new Continue

With his elegant prose, distinctive imagination, and deep empathy, the bestselling author of The Crimson Petal and the White once again dazzles us in three novellas. "The Courage Consort" tells of an a capella vocal ensemble sequestered in a Belgian chateau to rehearse a monstrously complicated new piece. But competing artistic temperaments and sexual needs create as much discordance as the avant garde music. In "The Hundred and Ninety-Nine Steps," a lonely woman joins an archaeological dig at Whitby Abbey and unearths a mystery involving a long-hidden murder. In "The Fahrenheit Twins," strange children, identical in all but gender and left alone at the icy zenith of the world by their anthropologist parents, create their own ritual civilization.

In each of these novellas, Michel Faber creates a unique, self-contained world, where the perennial human drama plays out in all its passion and ambiguity.

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  • Grace notes

    The Courage Consort Michel Faber 121pp, Canongate, £6.99 Michel Faber's heroines are women who have come adrift. They are abstractedly suicidal, stoically damaged, darkly amused; in the case of Isserley, sent across the galaxy to the Scottish highlan ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • The Courage Consort By Michel Faber

    In The Courage Consort, Michel Faber's latest literary offering, readers are drawn into three very different worlds with one prevailing theme the abject loneliness that often marks the human condition. With these novellas, Faber shows a particular gi ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 240 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0151010617
  • ISBN-13: 9780151010615
  • Publisher: Harcourt
  • Pub date: Nov 01, 2004
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback, Others, eBook and Paperback
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