{"product_id":"music-stories-9781841596365","title":"Music Stories","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMusic Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautiful hardback gift anthology of short stories about music by a remarkable array of literary greats, selected by Wesley Stace, who is both a musician and a writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book presents variations on a musical theme by a striking range of authors, among them Flaubert, Turgenev, Proust, Nabokov, Katherine Mansfield, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Amit Chaudhuri, Bernard MacLaverty, and Maya Angelou. Wesley Stace's attractive medley embraces musical genres from Virginia Woolf's 'A String Quartet' to Langston Hughes's 'The Blues I'm Playing' and Cathi Unsworth's rock-'n'-roll 'Johnny, Remember Me'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShort stories are interspersed with interludes from longer works, such as E. M. Forster's \u003ci\u003eHowards End\u003c\/i\u003e, Ann Patchett's \u003ci\u003eBel Canto\u003c\/i\u003e, and Vikram Seth's \u003ci\u003eAn Equal Music\u003c\/i\u003e. Here are music lessons, solos and duets, rehearsals and performances – and a whole suite of stories demonstrating that music is indeed the food of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe perfect marriage of the musical and the literary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362927362284,"sku":"9781841596365","price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/18862683482843.jpg?v=1772903296","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/music-stories-9781841596365","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}