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The Children's Bach
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"Published in the early 80s, the structure of the book is based on a piece of Bach’s music... not a typic…more

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Blair
Dec 16, 2019 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
According to Australian academic and critic Don Anderson, ‘There are four perfect short novels in the English language. They are, in chronological order, Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier, Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises and Garner’s The Children’s Bach.’ It's a provocative statement and you might quibble over the merits of some of those books, but I'm not going to disagree with the company that he puts Garner in. She also has the great merit of providing a f ...more
Marie b
Jun 22, 2013 rated it it was amazing