The melody : a novel

Resource Information

The work The melody : a novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The melody : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Jim Crace

Creator

• Crace, Jim

Author

• Crace, Jim

Subject

• Fiction
• Grief
• Grief -- Fiction
• Homeless persons -- Fiction
• City and town life
• Singers -- Fiction
• Widowers -- Fiction
• Singers
• City and town life -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Aside from his trusty piano, Alfred Busi lives alone in his villa overlooking the waves. Famed in his town for his music and songs, he is mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days, occasionally performing the classics in small venues--never in the stadiums he could fill when in his prime. On the night before receiving his town's highest honor, Busi is wrested from bed by noises in his courtyard and then stunned by an attacking intruder--his hands and neck are scratched, his face is bitten. Busi can't say what it was that he encountered, exactly, but he feels his assailant was neither man nor animal. The attack sets off a chain of events that will cast a shadow on Busi's career, imperil his home, and alter the fabric of his town. Busi's own account of what happened is embellished to fan the flames of old rumor--of an ancient race of people living in the surrounding forest--and to spark new controversy: something must finally be done about the town's poor, the feral vagabonds at its edges, whose numbers have been growing. All the while Busi, weathering a media storm, must come to terms with his wife's death and decide whether to sing one last time

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.914

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR6053.R228

LC item number

M45 2018

Literary form

novels