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Blue Roses

Blue Roses

by Peter Salmon
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/09/2018

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In 1922 Percy Grainger was the most famous musician in the world, a pioneer of the recording age who celebrated his wedding at the Hollywood Bowl in front of 20,000 people.

When his mother committed suicide, jumping from a New York skyscraper, it made the front page of the New York Times.

Blue Roses is a story of obsessive love, of grand ambition and grand failure, celebrating the life of the virtuoso pianist and avant-garde composer: an artist who pushed against every boundary, until he lost everything.

Peter Salmon charts Grainger’s fall from celebrity and success, through artistic and sexual obsession, toward the figure of tragedy he became, railing against a world that had forgotten him. Told in a series of narrative voices, particularly that of his mother, this is a brilliant fictional re-imagining of the life of one of the Australia’s most fascinating and enduring artists.

ISBN:
9780994352835
9780994352835
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-09-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hunter Publishers
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
272
Peter Salmon

Peter Salmon is a teacher of creative writing and a writer. His novel, The Coffee Story , was a New Statesman Book of the Year. He has written for the Guardian, the Sydney Review of Books, the New Humanist, as well as Australian TV and radio. He has received Writer's Awards from the Arts Council of England and the Arts Council of Victoria, Australia.

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