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The Page Turner

The Page Turner( )
Author: Leavitt, David
ISBN:978-0-316-64161-6
Publication Date:Apr 1998
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $39.00
Book Description:

Paul Porterfield's dreams of becoming a concert pianist are spurred on when he acts as a page turner at a recital given by the brilliant, temperamental Richard Kennington. Months later, while on holiday with his pushy mother in Rome, Paul meets Richard again. Their earlier attraction develops into an intense affair which is abruptly ended by Richard's return to America. Embittered, Paul throws himself into his studies at music school but soon realises that he cannot be just a page...
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Book Details
Pages:256
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.3 x 21.6 x 3 cm
Book Weight:0.619 Kilograms
Author Biography
Leavitt, David (Author)
David Leavitt's first collection of stories, "Family Dancing," was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award & the PEN/Faulkner Prize. "The Lost Language of Cranes" was made into a BBC film, & "While England Sleeps" was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize. Leavitt is also the author of "Equal Affections," "A Place I've Never Been," "Arkansas," & "The Page Turner." With Mark Mitchell, he coedited "The Penguin Book of Short Stories" & "The Pages Passed from Hand to Hand" & cowrote "Italian Pleasures." He is recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation & the National Endowment for the Arts.

He divides his time between Italy and Florida.

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