Overview
A novel of ineffable passions--familial, artistic, romantic--and their power to shape a life, set against the backdrop of fin-de-siècle Europe. From the award-winning author of Any Human Heart.
Brodie Moncur is a brilliant piano tuner, as brilliant in his own way as John Kilbarron--the "Irish Liszt"--the pianist Brodie accompanies on all of his tours, from Paris to St. Petersburg, as essential to Kilbarron as the pianist's own hands. It is a luxurious life, and a level of success Brodie could hardly have dreamed of growing up in a remote Scottish village, in a household ruled by a tyrannical father. But Brodie would gladly give it all up for the love of the Russian soprano Lika Blum: beautiful, worldly, seductive--and consort to Kilbarron. Though seemingly doomed from the start, Brodie's passion for Lika only grows as their lives become increasingly more intertwined, more secretive, and, finally, more dangerous. A tale of dizzying passion and brutal revenge; of artistic endeavor and the illusions it can create; of the possibilities that life offers and the cruel speed with which they can be snatched away, Love is Blind is at once an intimate portrait of one man and a vivid tapestry of the change and turbulence at the dawn of a new century.
Brodie Moncur is a brilliant piano tuner, as brilliant in his own way as John Kilbarron--the "Irish Liszt"--the pianist Brodie accompanies on all of his tours, from Paris to St. Petersburg, as essential to Kilbarron as the pianist's own hands. It is a luxurious life, and a level of success Brodie could hardly have dreamed of growing up in a remote Scottish village, in a household ruled by a tyrannical father. But Brodie would gladly give it all up for the love of the Russian soprano Lika Blum: beautiful, worldly, seductive--and consort to Kilbarron. Though seemingly doomed from the start, Brodie's passion for Lika only grows as their lives become increasingly more intertwined, more secretive, and, finally, more dangerous. A tale of dizzying passion and brutal revenge; of artistic endeavor and the illusions it can create; of the possibilities that life offers and the cruel speed with which they can be snatched away, Love is Blind is at once an intimate portrait of one man and a vivid tapestry of the change and turbulence at the dawn of a new century.
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