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The Courage Consort
With his elegant prose and perceptive imagination, the bestselling author of The Crimson Petal and the White creates a unique, self-contained world, where the perennial human drama plays out in all its passion and ambiguity. In these acclaimed novellas, Michel Faber takes on the interior world of inventively crafted characters. "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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
- Publish Date: Nov 1st, 2005
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.96in - 6.60in - 0.68in - 0.50lb
- EAN: 9780156032766
- Categories: • Short Stories (single author)• Literary• Psychological
About the Author
Faber, Michel: -
Michel Faber's work has been published in twenty countries and received several literary awards. He lives in Scotland.
Praise for this book
U.K. PRAISE FOR THE COURAGE CONSORT
"His air of strange novelty is as fresh as ever; each sentence condenses the world into something surprising and illuminating." -The Guardian (London)
PRAISE FOR THE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE
"Faber tells a good story grippingly and colorfully." -The Washington Post
"A lasting love affair; the intimate relationship one develops with the characters . . . is much more satisfying than the mere one-night stand promised by most other novels."-People