The Garden Where the Brass Band Played by Simon Vestdijk (English) Paperback Boo

Description: The Garden Where the Brass Band Played by Simon Vestdijk This is a coming-of-age novel, something that in other languages is expressed more pointedly as the novel of education. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The book is a coming-of-age novel, something that in other languages is expressed more pointedly as the novel of education. Nol, the judges son, is the person whose moral sentiments are being educated. But that education is acquired at the expense of an infinitely more valuable person, the young woman Nol loves, who has been exploited by men of weight and standing in their provincial community-all of them human, disgracefully human. Not tells the story from the time he was five years old, when, inspired by a rendition of one of Souzas marches in the garden where the brass band played, he danced with the conductors daughter, taller and older than himself, before a bemused assemblage of adults. The web of incident and reflection in Nols narration astonishes the reader with the texture of the lives it evokes, ending with Nols small, crucial defection that precipitates tragedy. In The Garden Where the Brass Band Played, as with every real novel of the genre, it is the reader whose sentiments are educated, by the pain of it, and no doubt rather too late. Author Biography Simon Vestdijk was trained as a physician, but practiced medicine for a short time only and thereafter devoted himself to literature. In the Netherlands he is regarded as one of the great men of letters of this century. He was an immensely prolific novelist, and also wrote a vast number of stories, poems, and essays. The Garden Where the Brass Band Played appears to be set in the period of the late twenties or early thirties, and in a provincial town whose mores bear a surprising resemblance to those of North America at that time. Review A celebration of musical genius. * New York Sunday Times *This powerful novel counterpoints bourgeois values against the lyricism of love and art. * Publishers Weekly * Review Quote This powerful novel counterpoints bourgeois values against the lyricism of love and art. Details ISBN1561310379 Author Simon Vestdijk Short Title GARDEN WHERE THE BRASS BAND PL Publisher New Amsterdam Books Language English Translator A. Brotherton ISBN-10 1561310379 ISBN-13 9781561310371 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Year 1998 Imprint New Amsterdam Books Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Birth 1898 Death 1971 Pages 312 DOI 10.1604/9781561310371 UK Release Date 1998-04-21 AU Release Date 1998-04-21 NZ Release Date 1998-04-21 US Release Date 1998-04-21 Publication Date 1998-04-21 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137153085;

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