Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
- ISBN-10
- 0307455785
- ISBN-13
- 9780307455789
- Series
- Nocturnes
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 221
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Kazuo Ishiguro
Description
Five interconnected stories in which music is an intrinsic theme follow the struggles of such protagonists as a once-popular singer desperate for a comeback, a songwriter who is unwittingly involved in a failing marriage, and a jazz musician who wrongly believes that plastic surgery will secure his career. By the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day. Reprint. A New York Times Notable Book.
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