The Resource The melody, Jim Crace
The melody, Jim Crace
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The item The melody, Jim Crace represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item The melody, Jim Crace represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Alfred Busi, famed and beloved in his town for his music and songs, is now in his sixties, mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days alone in the large villa he has always called home. The night before he is due to attend a ceremony at the town's avenue of fame, Busi is attacked by a creature he disturbs as it raids the contents of his larder. Busi is convinced that the thing that attacked him was no animal, but a child, 'innocent and wild', and his words fan the flames of old rumour - of an ancient race of people living in the bosk surrounding the town - and new controversy: the town's paupers, the feral wastrels at its edges must be dealt with. Once and for all. As Busi's nephew's ambitious plans for himself and the town develop, he is able to fan the flames of rumour and soon Busi and the town he loves will be altered irrevocably. The Melody by Jim Crace is a story about grief and ageing, about reputation and the loss of it, about love and music and the peculiar way myth seeps into real life. And it is a political novel too - a rallying cry to protect those we persecute. It is lyrical and warm, intimate and epic, a powerful future classic
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 275 pages
- Note
- "There was a rumour, a rumour that proved to be as true as it was brutal..."--Front cover
- Isbn
- 9781509841370
- Label
- The melody
- Title
- The melody
- Statement of responsibility
- Jim Crace
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Alfred Busi, famed and beloved in his town for his music and songs, is now in his sixties, mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days alone in the large villa he has always called home. The night before he is due to attend a ceremony at the town's avenue of fame, Busi is attacked by a creature he disturbs as it raids the contents of his larder. Busi is convinced that the thing that attacked him was no animal, but a child, 'innocent and wild', and his words fan the flames of old rumour - of an ancient race of people living in the bosk surrounding the town - and new controversy: the town's paupers, the feral wastrels at its edges must be dealt with. Once and for all. As Busi's nephew's ambitious plans for himself and the town develop, he is able to fan the flames of rumour and soon Busi and the town he loves will be altered irrevocably. The Melody by Jim Crace is a story about grief and ageing, about reputation and the loss of it, about love and music and the peculiar way myth seeps into real life. And it is a political novel too - a rallying cry to protect those we persecute. It is lyrical and warm, intimate and epic, a powerful future classic
- Cataloging source
- APLS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Crace, Jim
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Widowers
- Reputation
- Victims of crimes
- Legends
- Villages
- Interpersonal relations
- Musicians
- City and town life
- Singers
- Grief
- Mediterranean Region
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The melody, Jim Crace
- Note
- "There was a rumour, a rumour that proved to be as true as it was brutal..."--Front cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000061508251
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 275 pages
- Isbn
- 9781509841370
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1000041807
- Label
- The melody, Jim Crace
- Note
- "There was a rumour, a rumour that proved to be as true as it was brutal..."--Front cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000061508251
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 275 pages
- Isbn
- 9781509841370
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1000041807
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