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This is a biography/literary novel concerning Elgar who leaves Liverpool to go on a round-trip voyage across the Atlantic to Brazil and up the River Amazon. The author is a Newdigate Prize-winner and has written "Playing With Water" and "View From Mount Dog". This is his first novel.
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In this delightful novel, which won a Whitbread Prize in 1989, James Hamilton-Paterson joins celebrated British composer Edward Elgar on a cruise on the Amazon River and imagines what artists of the time may have pondered. "Oh Edward what a stupid doltish ass you've been to waste your life on the idea that art--in its small way--can make the least difference to things," he imagines Elgar as commenting. The book isn't merely a collection of questioning ruminations; the cruise is filled with a variety of comical and interesting passengers and crew members.
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James Hamilton-Paterson is the author of Seven-Tenths, Three Miles Down and Griefwork, among other books. His work has been translated into many languages. He lives in Italy and the Phillippines.
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- PublisherMacmillan London
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0333451945
- ISBN 13 9780333451946
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages264
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