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'Music has the ability to change moods, to soothe or excite. These short stories are gathered loosely around a musical theme. The romance, the passion, the inspiration of music, and how it affects people' (publisher blurb).
Notes
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The eight stories in this collection originally appeared in The Bookbinder's Brother (2003). They were revised for this 2011 collection.
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'Playing for Memory' also appears in Rosanne Dingli's companion short story collection, A Great Intimacy and Other Stories (2011).
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At least two alternative covers have been used for this publication.
Contents
- Cacti, single work short story (p. 1-8)
- Allegro Ma Non Troppo, single work short story (p. 9-30)
- Encore, single work short story (p. 31-44)
- Playing from Memory, single work short story (p. 45-56)
- Walking into the Sea, single work short story (p. 57-68)
- Wetting the Stone, single work short story (p. 69-82)
- Dancing Words, single work short story (p. 83-94)
- The House with its Feet in the Sea, single work short story (p. 95-107)
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The Bookbinder's Brother and Other Collected Stories
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Jacobyte Books
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2003
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2003
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'Rosanne Dingli's stories deal with art, music, and literature, and are intensely concerned with location and atmosphere. They combine diverse meanings of intimacy experienced by a fascinating assortment of characters, at different times, in different places.
Uneasy familiarity between friends thrown together by a difficult love for one woman, or the bond of siblings, are forms of intimacy that can border on contempt. Artists, musicians and writers can have such similar intense feelings ... or such diverse emotions, about similar situations. Lovers' tenderness can endure because of deep understanding. Betrayal, confusion and joy live side-by-side with disappointment, bewilderment and elation, and always, there is that sense of involvement, of relationship.
This is an excursion into how close, or how distant, two individuals can feel. Enjoy this special bijou collection of fifteen previously published and awarded stories' (publisher blurb).
