Deep purple : a novel / Mayra Montero ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montero, Mayra, 1952-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Grossman, Edith, 1936-2023.

Standardized Title:

Púrpura profundo. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

182 pages ; 19 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Ecco, [2003]

Summary:

Agustin Caban, a distinguished music critic, has written for a San Juan newspaper all his life. Forced to retire but unwilling to stop working, Agustin begins writing about his seductions of the most brilliant classical musicians in the world. In his memoirs he reveals that the Australian pianist Glint Verret offered a passionate and tender interlude; that Clarissa Berdsley, the French horn player, was submissive and playful; and that the flamboyant violinist Manuela Suggia turned out to be a vengeful and demonic lover.

As Sebastian, his former editor, devours each passionate and titillating installment, he begins to regard Agustin's sexual forays in a new light. Deep Purple explores the relationship between sexual desire and music, and finds in that deep and mysterious place the meaning of life.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0066214203

0060938218

OCLC:

50851725