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The Piano Tuner
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Author : Daniel Mason
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2003-12-16
The Piano Tuner written by Daniel Mason and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-16 with Fiction categories.
A New York Times Notable Book A San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year “A gripping and resonant novel. . . . It immerses the reader in a distant world with startling immediacy and ardor. . . . Riveting.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War Office: to travel to the remote jungles of northeast Burma and there repair a rare piano belonging to an eccentric army surgeon who has proven mysteriously indispensable to the imperial design. From this irresistible beginning, The Piano Tuner launches readers into a world of seductive, vibrantly rendered characters, and enmeshes them in an unbreakable spell of storytelling.
The Piano Tuner
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Author : Chiang-Sheng Kuo
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2023-01-03
The Piano Tuner written by Chiang-Sheng Kuo and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-03 with Fiction categories.
This bestseller and winner of every major literary award in Taiwan is an elegiac novel about love and loss, broken dreams and desolate hearts—and music: "A delightful read."—Ha Jin A widower grieving for his young wife. A piano tuner concealing a lifetime of secrets. An out-of-tune Steinway piano. A journey of self-discovery across time and continents, from a dark apartment in Taipei’s red-light district to snow-clad New York. At the heart of the story is the nameless narrator, the piano tuner. In his forties, he is balding and ugly, a loser by any standard. But he was once a musical prodigy. What betrayal and what heartbreak made him walk away from greatness? Long hailed in Taiwan as a “writer’s writer,” Chiang-Sheng Kuo delivers a stunningly powerful, compact novel in The Piano Tuner. It’s a book of sounds: both of music and of the heart, from Rachmaninoff to Schubert, from Glenn Gould to Sviatoslav Richter, from untapped potential to unrequited love. With a cadence and precision that bring to mind Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nocturnes, and Yasunari Kawabata’s Snow Country, this short novel may be a portrait of the artist as a “failure,” but it also describes a pursuit of the ultimate beauty in music and in love.
The Piano Tuner
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Author : Ignacio Noe
language : en
Publisher: Eurotica
Release Date : 2009-03
The Piano Tuner written by Ignacio Noe and has been published by Eurotica this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03 with Comic books, strips, etc categories.
The best-selling series finally sees its second volume collecting the rest of the stories of the Piano Tuner who gets to tune a lot more than a bunch of grand pianos. Somehow, he always seems to know just the right tune of the women he visits turning them into lecherous wretches at his command! Just as beautifully painted by Noe as ever.
The Piano Tuner
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Author : Daniel Mason
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
The Piano Tuner written by Daniel Mason and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with British categories.
A hypnotic tale of myth, romance and self-discovery.
Piano Servicing Tuning And Rebuilding For The Professional The Student And The Hobbyist
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Author : Arthur A. Reblitz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Piano Servicing Tuning And Rebuilding For The Professional The Student And The Hobbyist written by Arthur A. Reblitz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Piano categories.
Provides all the information needed for restoring and maintaining pianos, both for professionals and amateurs.
The Piano Tuner
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Author : Peter Meinke
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2012-03-15
The Piano Tuner written by Peter Meinke and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-15 with Fiction categories.
In The Piano Tuner, Peter Meinke writes of the foreignness that awaits us when we go abroad and when we answer our own front door to admit a stranger, that confronts us in unfamiliar cities and villages and in the equally disquieting surroundings of our memories and regrets. Often in these stories, what seems a safe, comfortable environment turns suddenly threatening. In the title story, a writer's quiet existence amid his antiques and books is dismantled, piece by piece, by a demonic, beer-bellied piano tuner. In "The Ponoes," a man recalls how, as a young boy living in Brooklyn during World War II, he became a collaborationist in the brutal pranks of two Irish bullies. In "The Twisted River," the sedate collegiality of a Polish university is disrupted when an American on a Fulbright grant attempts to blackmail two faculty members. And in "The Bracelet," a young anthropology student doing field work in Africa finds herself drawn further and further into the role of a priestess of Oshun, into a life dictated by the configuration of cowry shells cast upon the floor. Meinke writes of a world where our control over our lives seldom exists across a border, and often extends no further than our fingertips. Attempts to bridge two cultures, two lives are sometimes successful, as when an actor finds love in the arms of a tough-talking barmaid, but more usually lead to disillusionment, as when a hard-drinking salesman's career is shattered after he is drunk under the table one night by a Polish engineer, or when an English father struggles to find common ground with his American son. Riveting, almost terrifying, the stories in The Piano Tuner tell of decent men and women caught in events that they could never have predicted, would never have chosen.
The Piano Tuner 1
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Author : Igancio Noe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-09
The Piano Tuner 1 written by Igancio Noe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09 with categories.
Welcome to the humourous and adult world of Mr. D'elia, the Piano Tuner, as it leaps from the imagination of creator Ignacio Noe.
The Piano Tuner S Daughter
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Author : Ingrid Silvian
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2013-07-16
The Piano Tuner S Daughter written by Ingrid Silvian and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-16 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Ingrid Silvian has written a memorable story for children that will help them understand what it was really like to live through events of WWII, how children just like them adapt and survive. Through vignettes in the lives of two young girl friends, one Jewish, one Christian, we experience how everything changed when the Nazis came. Silvian provides a child's eye view of war, both mundane and profound a shift from marbles to shrapnel as the treasure of choice; racing to catch the last train carrying evacuees out of the city and ultimately, who was saved and who was sacrificed. At a time when many of the first hand witnesses of this chilling chapter of history are passing away, Silvian's story provides a valuable link that reaches across generations that will live on in the hearts and minds of a new generation of children. Pam Spence, editor, Ohio Jewish Chronicle, Columbus, OH
The Craft Of Piano Tuning
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Author : Daniel Levitan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-01-01
The Craft Of Piano Tuning written by Daniel Levitan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Piano categories.
The Jazz Girl The Piano And The Dedicated Tuner
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Author : Nicky Gentil
language : en
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2018-03-13
The Jazz Girl The Piano And The Dedicated Tuner written by Nicky Gentil and has been published by Troubador Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-13 with Music categories.
“The natural tone of Nicky Gentil’s richly anecdotal narrative will delight not only pianists and jazz enthusiasts but anyone who just happens to like pianos in general.” - Cadence Info Magazine A collection of humorous, touching, unputdownable stories set in Paris, The Jazz-Girl, the Piano, and the Dedicated Tuner transports you into a feel-good world of jazz, pianos and the little-known art of piano tuning. An entertaining slice of life, regardless of whether or not you play a musical instrument, this book explores the world of Nina Somerville, an Englishwoman who - while others are going through a mid-life crisis - discovers by complete chance her true calling: jazz improvisation. In a bid to enjoy that passion to the full, she purchases the piano of her dreams - a Steinway baby grand - leading her to make yet another discovery: the intricate mysteries of the fascinating piano tuning profession. Against the backdrop of the Eiffel tower and the Champs-Élysées, from the quest for the perfect sound to an unexpected chance to perform in public, music takes Nina on a journey which is at times improbable and hilarious, but equally moving, not to mention extremely informative. Previously published in France, The Jazz-Girl has been greatly received, and has the interesting addition of being musically illustrated on the author’s YouTube channel with some characters playing pieces alluded to in the stories.