Kate Racculia

Bellweather Rhapsody (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A high school music festival goes awry when a young prodigy disappears from a hotel room that was the site of a famous murder/suicide fifteen years earlierin this "deliciously dark confection of a novel, and one of the most thoroughly enjoyable books I've read in years" (Celeste Ng). Now hundreds of high school musicians, including quiet bassoonist Rabbit Hatmaker and his brassy diva twin, Alice, have gathered in its cavernous, crumbling halls for the annual statewide festival; the grown-up bridesmaid has returned to face her demons; and a snowstorm is forecast that will trap everyone on the grounds. Then one of the orchestra's stars disappearsfrom room 712. Is it a prank, or has murder struck the Bellweather once again? The search for answers entwines a hilariously eccentric cast of charactersconductors and caretakers, failures and stars, teenagers on the verge and adults trapped in memories. For everyone has come to the Bellweather with a secret, and everyone is haunted. Full of knowing nods to the shivery pleasures of suspense and the transporting power of music, this is a wholly winning new novel from a writer lauded as "charming" (Los Angeles Times), "witty" (O,The Oprah Magazine), and "whimsical" (People).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HMH Books
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780544133471
• Artikelnr.: 40806952

Autorenporträt

KATE RACCULIA is the author of the novels This Must Be the Place and Bellweather Rhapsody, winner of the American Library Association's Alex Award. She received her MFA from Emerson College and now works for the Bethlehem Area Public Library in Pennsylvania. You can find her at www.kateracculia.com or @kateracculia.

Rezensionen

"As much as this is a tale of youth and ambition - and, in the case of the students' messy adult mentors, regret and rage - it is at its core a humdinger of a mystery...the pleasures of this great yarn are not just its full heart but its clever head." - Entertainment Weekly , Grade A "This rich brew of a novel from Racculia ( This Must Be the Place) mixes together murder, music, and eccentric humor. Racculia sets the stage for a novel of dueling wills, marked by textured characterization and an ebullient storytelling style." - Publishers Weekly, starred review "An experience worth rhapsodizing about . . . Racculia's droll wit and keen understanding of human nature propel a story that's rich in distinctive characters and wholly engaging. A gem." - Kirkus , starred review

" Bellweather Rhapsody is funny and exuberant, twisty and captivating. Racculia tells the truth here, about art and life and the many trajectories that talent can take. She's also written the most resonantdescriptions of music-how it really works in the head and the heart-that I've ever read. For its darkness and its glee, I loved this novel." - Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
"Witty and smartly moving, Kate Racculia's Bellweather Rhapsody offers a heart-thumping mystery of music and murder, wherein the past repeats itself, and in doing so becomes malleable again: just as an orchestral score can be rearranged to new effect, so an unsolved crime sometimes returns to shock and surprise anew-and in both cases the outcomes are as unpredictable as they are suspenseful." -Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods