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Erik Satie - composer, dandy, eccentric - is dead. Told to select one memory to take with him into the afterlife, he finds himself in limbo with a community of the deceased, looking back at his fifty-nine years for its most precious moments. Evenings of absinthe at the Chat Noir? Friendships with Debussy, Duchamp and Man Ray? What of his great musical triumphs and disasters? How will he choose his own legacy before silent whiteness descends? Venice, 1511. In the convent of Sant' Alvise, Oliva is about to take the veil and become a bride of Christ. When her world is shaken - first, literally, by an earthquake, and then, spiritually, by forces that threaten to change the convent for ever - she begins to ask questions about her faith and her future. When she agrees to sit for Signor AvYlo, the renowned portrait painter, he brings with him a diabolical object: a mirror. And reflections can be dangerous. Told with playful elegance, these are two utterly original tales of art and devotion, of religious and creative fervour. They contemplate the eternal in different ways - one examining a life only just beginning, tentatively; the other a life lived without compromise as it reaches its close.Product Identifiers
PublisherFaber & Faber
ISBN-139780571305070
eBay Product ID (ePID)176568322
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Mirror
AuthorRichard Skinner
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2014
Dimensions
Item Height216mm
Item Width135mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorRichard Skinner
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom