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Ravel

a Novel
Mar 20, 2018diannehildebrand rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A unique and beautiful small novel based on the last years of the French composer Ravel. The foreword by Adam Gopnik, one of my favourite writers, sets you up to understand the book and appreciate it deeply. It would probably have happened without the foreword but in itself the foreword is a wonderful treatise about how you can show a big picture with surface events. The book is like a series of vignettes - Ravel in his bath, Ravel on a train, on a trip, on American tour, in a restaurant, and when you've read these, you have a feeling of knowing this man far more deeply than you might have had you read the 1000-page official biographical tome.