$14.95
ISBN-13: 9780307743329
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Anchor, 6/2012
David Abbott's first novel, The Upright Piano Player, brings to mind some wonderful comparisons. It reminds me of a Cezanne painting. Each character and each event is a like a perfectly applied brushstroke--critical to the whole and so perfect that you can't imagine changing one thing. It also reminds me of Pulp Fiction. Not the violence, which is mild, but the structure, the editing and yes, the end. And it does remind me and will certainly be compared to the work of Ian McEwan. The comparison is fair and favorable. The Upright Piano Player is a fantastic novel brimming with tragedy, menace, and love (lost, found and newly discovered) in the life of one lonely man. It reminds me of some wonderful things and yet I've never read anything quite like it. ~ Reviewed by Stan Hynds
