{"product_id":"the-cellist-9781913512118","title":"The Cellist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eThe Cellist is a piercing meditation on love, music, and the silence and inscrutability which underpins the performance of each. It explores how to make room for beauty and mastery for yourself while still leaving space for someone else. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 304 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 14 July 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Peninsula Press Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLuc has lived a long time as a soloist, but a visit to a major show of Billy's sculptures sends her arrowing back to a younger version of herself. To a time when she had to make room to love him when she had felt no room within herself. To a time when she was forced to make a choice between being one thing or another. To a time when he was a sculptor, but she was not yet a cellist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn exquisite and crystalline prose, The Cellist explores how one might make room for beauty and mastery for oneself while still leaving space for someone else. It asks what love and companionship cost: what happens when one is forced to cast oneself in the distorting light of another person's needs?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLuc has lived a long time as a soloist, but a visit to a major show of Billy's sculptures sends her arrowing back to a younger version of herself. To a time when she had to make room to love him when she had felt no room within herself. To a time when she was forced to make a choice between being one thing or another. To a time when he was a sculptor, but she was not yet a cellist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn exquisite and crystalline prose, The Cellist explores how one might make room for beauty and mastery for oneself while still leaving space for someone else. It asks what love and companionship cost: what happens when one is forced to cast oneself in the distorting light of another person's needs?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLuc has lived a long time as a soloist, but a visit to a major show of Billy's sculptures sends her arrowing back to a younger version of herself. To a time when she had to make room to love him when she had felt no room within herself. To a time when she was forced to make a choice between being one thing or another. To a time when he was a sculptor, but she was not yet a cellist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn exquisite and crystalline prose, The Cellist explores how one might make room for beauty and mastery for oneself while still leaving space for someone else. It asks what love and companionship cost: what happens when one is forced to cast oneself in the distorting light of another person's needs?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 198 x 129 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781913512118\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jennifer Atkins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44105488269562,"sku":"9781913512118","price":8.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/noImage_1_07e01706-d754-45b2-9fc5-bab1f34ffa6e.jpg?v=1658001062","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/the-cellist-9781913512118","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}