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The Upright Piano Player - David Abbott
The Upright Piano Player
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Format: ebook
ISBN: 9781623652197 (1623652197)
Publisher: MacLehose Press
Edition language: English
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Boston Bibliophile
Boston Bibliophile rated it
5.0 The Upright Piano Player: A Novel
Really good literary novel in the style of Ian McEwan about an older man pushed out of his job, who is stalked by a stranger and negotiating difficult relationships with his grown children and former wife. The book starts with a shocking act of violence and works its way back around to how it happen...
The Drift Of Things
The Drift Of Things rated it
2.0
This book is proof positive that people who write good ad copy don't necessarily make good novelists. It took me weeks to get through it, and it's only 264 pages. The entire book feels like an exercise in misdirection. Abbott's writing zings around like a fart in a skillet and ultimately leads nowhe...
auntieannie
auntieannie rated it
3.0 The Upright Piano Player
Need to think about this one some more. Not sure what I thought. The majority of the characters weren't likable, but I still wanted to know where it was going. Definitely depressing.What was he saying? Why did Henry have so much misery in his life? Was it a lesson in karma? and of course, it has a l...
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