Asturias / Brian Caswell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caswell, Brian, 1954- author.

Series:

UQP young adult fiction.

UQP young adult fiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musicians--Fiction.

Musicians.

Interpersonal relations--Fiction.

Interpersonal relations.

Spaniards--Australia--Fiction.

Spaniards.

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Fiction.

Spain.

Australia--Fiction.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Place of Publication:

St Lucia, Queensland, Australia : University of Queensland Press ; Portland, Oregon : Distributed in the USA by International Specialized Book Services, Incorporated, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Music never stopped a war or put an end to greed or the hunger for power. But it was never supposed to. It has no reason, just as life has no reason. It just is. And what it is is the best that we can hope to be." Music is the talent - and the curse - that spans three generations to link Alex Rivera with the secrets of his family's past. Plucked from obsurity and thrown together with four other musical "prodigies," Alex rides the power of his music to fame and fortune as the lead-guitarist for Asturias, the latest creation of the music industry machine. But will the forces of commercialism and the stresses of fame destroy them, just as a bloody civil war tore apart another group of young idealists six decades earlier? How could anything go wrong? Everything's on track. You're on top of the world. Which is great. As long as you don't look down ...

Contents:

Front Cover; About the Author; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Prelude: And all the broken dreams; First movement: Theme and variations; 1 Asturias; 2 The suit; 3 She; 4 To die for; 5 Auditions; 6 The best teacher; 7 The choice of the heart; 8 The face; 9 The heartbeat; 10 Other nights; Second movement: Accelerando; 11 The yellow-brick road; 12 Sides; 13 Family; 14 A question of style; 15 Segovia; 16 Loaded questions; 17 Benefit; 18 Stagefright; Third movement: Appassionata; 19 The dark side of the dream; 20 What a man's got to do; 21 Guernica; 22 Stress fractures; 23 About Penny

24 Visiting25 Avila; 26 A stroke of genius; 27 Home turf; 28 Requiem; 29 Juana; 30 Escape clause; 31 Burning bridges; 32 Leaving; 33 Cast-offs; 34 Osterley Point; 35 Miracles; 36 A part of the common soul; Coda: Reprise; Acknowledgments; Copyright

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7022-5793-1