Gerontius

By James Hamilton-Paterson

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0939149699
• ISBN13: 9780939149698
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Soho Press, Incorporated
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Skip first 13 pages

The initial section of this book has nothing to do with the plot and is very portentious and incomprehensible. Both I and my wife found it off-puting. However, starting on page 13, this is a superb, beautiful, and thought-provoking novel that I recommend unhesitatingly.

Gerontius

Wistful, poignant and beautifully written, this is a touching and elegaic novel. Blending fact with imaginary events, Hamilton Paterson takes an extraordinary, but true, event from Elgar's life and constructs around it a simple but fabulous narrative about a man at a creative crisis. Thoroughly enjoyable.