{"product_id":"9781681373959","title":"The Great Concert of the Night","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eBuckley, Jonathan\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eNew York Review Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e1\/14\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Why isn’t Jonathan Buckley better known? His novel of love, death and melancholy comedy, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Concert of the Night,\u003c\/i\u003e is captivating.” —John Banville\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e David has just spent New Year’s Eve alone, watching \u003ci\u003eLe Grand Concert de la Nuit\u003c\/i\u003e,  a film in which his former lover Imogen starred. In the early hours of  the new year, consoled and tormented by her ethereal presence, he begins  to write. What follows is a brilliantly various journal, chronicling a  year in the life of a thinking man. David works as a curator at the  ailing Sanderson-Perceval Museum in southern England, whose small  collection of porcelain, musical instruments, crystals, velvet  mushrooms, and glass jellyfish is as eccentric and idiosyncratic as the  long-dead collectors’ tastes. David himself is a connoisseur of the  derelict and nonutilitarian, of objects removed from the flow of time.  Refusing the imposed order of a straightforward chronology, his journal  moves fluidly back and forth in time, filled with fragments of life  remembered, imagined, and recorded, from memories of his past life with  Imogen or with his ex-wife, Samantha, to reflections on the lives and  relics of female saints or the history of medicine. There are quotations  from Seneca, Meister Eckhart, and the Goncourt brothers mixed in with  the equally compelling imagined words of fictional film directors,  actors, and, always, the fascinating Imogen, who is alive now only “in  the perpetual present of the sentence.” In \u003ci\u003eThe Great Concert of the Night\u003c\/i\u003e,  Jonathan Buckley expertly interweaves sexual despair, cultural  critique, the plot lines of one man’s quietly brilliant life, and the  problems and paradoxes of writing, especially writing about and to the  dead.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43374880784639,"sku":"9781681373959","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9781681373959_s600x595.jpg?v=1775594311","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9781681373959","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}