Nocturnes Synopsis
Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character.
A once-popular singer, desperate to make a comeback, turning from the one certainty in his life… A man whose unerring taste in music is the only thing his closest friends value in him… A struggling singer-songwriter unwittingly involved in the failing marriage of a couple he’s only just met… A gifted, underappreciated jazz musician who lets himself believe that plastic surgery will help his career… A young cellist whose tutor promises to “unwrap” his talent…. continue reading