| The Unconsoled Contributor(s): Ishiguro, Kazuo (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679735879 ISBN-13: 9780679735878 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1996 Annotation: The Unconsoled is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control. The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and infuriating errands that nevertheless provide him with vital clues to his own past. In The Unconsoled Ishiguro creates a work that is itself a virtuoso performance, strange, haunting, and resonant with humanity and wit. "A work of great interest and originality.... Ishiguro has mapped out an aesthetic territory that is all his own...frankly fantastic [and] fiercer and funnier than before."--"The New Yorker |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Absurdist - Fiction | Humorous - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.1" W x 8" (1.20 lbs) 544 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day, here is a novel that is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control. The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and infuriating errands that nevertheless provide him with vital clues to his own past. In The Unconsoled Ishiguro creates a work that is itself a virtuoso performance, strange, haunting, and resonant with humanity and wit. |