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Between Each Breath (Paperback)

by Adam Thorpe (Author)
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  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage (1 May 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099479923
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099479925
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 39,652 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Between Each Breath, 19 Sep 2007
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Hadn't read Adam Thorpe before, it came up on a local library search on Tallinn just after returning from Estonia. Couldn't put it down, yet had to break to absorb it - beautifully lyrical, poetic prose that flowed like molten glass.
Set partly in a country rapidly shedding its Communist legacy its people & places were portrayed with such sharp edged clarity that it hurt.
Brilliant.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Symphonic, 5 Oct 2007
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A beautifully written meditation on love and art contained in a truly compelling narrative and one of the most profoundly plausible books I have read which includes classical music amongst its subject matter. Head and shoulders above most other novels by booker eligible authors I have read this year.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful English psychological novel, 21 Aug 2008
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If we spend 10 hours reading the average novel (as Po Bronson has written), then it's vital to enjoy the company of the characters. Jack will be recognisable to most egocentric, indecisive, weak males, or at least those times we (the males) let ourselves down. Initially, he seems pretty precious and annoying - being one of those Hampstead types living a life of material comfort; however, he comes from an unremarkable working-class background, and rose from being a musical prodigy to being a (reasonably-)celebrated classical composer, who marries into wealth. But Adam Thorpe uses Jack and his wife's combined statuses to mirror the have-nots in UK society too, and the book becomes an excellent reading of injustice and missed chances in a bloated, self-satisfied, unfair society. I've read a book of Thorpe's poetry, and it is as exquisite as many moments of his prose, but there was a faintly bourgeois refinement that left me unable to love his work, but here he uses what I might imagine is his background, or experiences of life, to do what other writers in similar social strata are afraid of doing: ostensibly painting, but ultimately excavating - in painful detail - the pomposity of the upper middle-classes to show us where our hankering for money and comfort would lead us, instead of finding out what we were put on this earth to do.
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