Bel Canto: A Novel

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NYT Bestseller A major motion picture starring Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe. Blissfully romantic.A strange terrific spellcasting story. San Francisco Chronicle Bel Cantoshould be on the list of every literate music lover. The story is riveting the participants breathe and feel and are alive and throughout this elegantly-told novel music pours forth so splendidly that the reader hears it and is overwhelmed by its beauty. Lloyd Moss WXQR Ann Patchetts award winning Bel Canto balances themes of love and crisis as disparate characters learn that music is their only common language. As in Patchetts other novels including Truth & Beauty and The Magicians Assistant the authors lyrical prose and lucid imagination make Bel Canto a captivating story of strength and frailty love and imprisonment and an inspiring tale of transcendent romance.