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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780385517812 |
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--Kirkus Reviews
An impressive debut…Goldstein paints a vivid picture of the world of the arts from behind the scenes: the studying, composing, selling, and performing and the people who are driven by the need to create.
--Library Journal
A marvelous first novel - sophisticated, nuanced and sexy. A precociously gifted woman trades romantic love for artistic passion, then must learn to balance motherhood with her art. This narrative is as tense and vibrant as an extended note from a solo violin. Goldstein writes about musical composition in a way that approaches music itself.
-Emily Raboteau, author of The Professor's Daughter
An intoxicating symphony about love, a moving love story about music, Overture is a truly marvelous debut novel. Encore!
-Katharine Weber, author of Triangle, The Little Women, The Music Lesson, and Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
Yael Goldstein has given us a delightful, passionate book about the life of the mind, the life of the body, and the life of the heart. Overture is a mesmerizing and wise novel, simultaneously unsparing and tender, and compelling from first page to the last. This is a big book in the best possible way.
—Rachel Kadish, author of From a Sealed Room and Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story
Yael Goldstein's passionate, precocious novel of creativity and love understands with great wisdom the way all of us—parents and children, artists and appreciators—must fight to find our own voice so that we can be free without resentment to love the world that made us.
—Jonathan Rosen, author of Eve’s Apple
Synopsis:
Natasha Darsky is the most famous violinist since Paganini. Bow in hand, she lights an erotic fire under every piece of music she plays, telling each composer's story in a singularly sensuous way. The daughter of a world-renowned art dealer in New York City, Natasha grows up in a world where artistic achievement is accorded the highest value, and her father's opinion determines the rise and the fall of many an artist. Her prodigious musical talent, discovered when she is a little girl, blossoms at Harvard, where she begins to pursue composition as well as performing. She is soon involved in a passionate love affair with Jean Paul, a young composer whose innovative music is hailed as revolutionary. Under Jean Paul's shadow, Natasha abandons her dream of writing music of her own and turns toward performance. Channeling the frustration and muted fury of this choice into her playing, she creates a sexually charged sound that packs concert halls around the world year after year. Her young daughter, Alex, follows in her celebrated footsteps, but it is Alex's talent as a composer that brings mother and daughter together--and tears them apart in ways Natasha could hardly have anticipated.
Overture draws readers into the glamorous and competitive world of classical music, capturing its harsh demands and its magical power to move performers and audiences alike. With amastery rare in a first-time novelist, Yael Goldstein offers a fascinating meditation on the nature of creative brilliance and on the love that binds a mother and daughter even when their personal desires clash.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780385517812
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Doubleday Books
- Author:
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Man-woman relationships
- Subject:
- Mothers and daughters
- Publication Date:
- January 2007
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 292
- Dimensions:
- 9.46x6.40x1.07 in. 1.23 lbs.











