Description
| Product ID: | 9781910709054 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt |
| Authors: | Author: Tracy Farr |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Tracy Farr's acclaimed debut novel is the heartfelt story of one Lena Gaunt: musician, octogenarian, junkie. Longlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Literary Award Tracy Farr’s acclaimed debut novel is the fictional memoir of Dame Lena Gaunt: musician, octogenarian, junkie. ''Compelling reading'' The Listener I hold one regret from that day: that I put my first love, my cello, aside. But it was to take up a bigger love, a greater thing; it was to step into the future. Music''s Most Modern Instrument. And I was to become Music''s Most Modern Musician. Tracy Farr''s debut novel is the fictional memoir of Dame Lena Gaunt: musician, octogenarian, junkie. Documentary filmmaker Mo Patterson approaches veteran musician Lena Gaunt after watching her play at a festival in Perth: her first performance in 20 years. While initially suspicious of Mo''s intentions and reluctant to have her privacy invaded, Lena finds herself sharing stories from her past. From a solitary childhood in Malacca and a Perth boarding school, to a glittering career in Jazz-age Sydney, to quiet domesticity in a New-Zealand backwater, Lena''s is a life characterized by the pull of the sea, the ebb and flow of passion and loss, and her enduring relationship with that extraordinary instrument, the theremin. |
| Imprint Name: | Aardvark Bureau |
| Publisher Name: | Gallic Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-05-26 |