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Author Orr, Stephen, 1967-

Title Dissonance : a novel / Stephen Orr
Published Kent Town, S. Aust. : Wakefield Press, 2012

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 MELB  827.04 O756 A6/D  AVAILABLE
Description 408 pages ; 21 cm
regular print
Summary Erwin Hegert is forced from childhood to practice piano scales and studies by his ambitious mother. Later she takes him to Hamburg in 1930's Germany where he meets and falls in love with Luise, and is torn between the piano, Luise and his mother
Notes "Dissonance is a reimagining of the 'Frankfurt years' of Rose and Percy Grainger." -- Cover
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Subject Australian fiction -- 21st century.
Dysfunctional families -- Gifted children -- Fiction
Gifted children -- Pianists -- Fiction
Gifted children -- Fiction.
Mothers and sons -- Fiction.
Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.
Pianists -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Fiction.
LC no. 2012452183
ISBN 9781862549456 (paperback)