Distant Sound (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781564785268)

A composer who has already given up composing - because of his inability to notate the music of the spheres - becomes increasingly fixated on capturing a mysterious, eerie, distant sound, which he soon equates with all the things he desires most: the perfect woman, the perfect city, the perfect work of art. Obsessed with his impossible quest, the man breaks out of the asylum and begins a series of comic, dreamlike, and ultimately haunting adventures as he tries to locate the source of the sound that consumes him... and instead finds the root cause of all his failures.

Author: Gert Jonke
ISBN-10: 1564785262
ISBN-13: 9781564785268
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
Published: 08/24/2010
Pages: 289
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.50w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/24/2010 pg. 34