Orpheus Lost: A Novel - Softcover
A Library Journal Best Book and Booklist Editor's Choice: "This astonishingly rich novel...will entrance readers."―Library Journal, starred review
In this compelling reimagining of the Orpheus myth, Leela, a young mathematician, encounters gifted Australian musician Mishka performing in the subway. The connection is immediate; a steamy love affair ensues. Insulated by their love, the pair ignores the anxious urban landscape. But when Leela is picked up off the street and taken to an interrogation center and an explosion rocks the subway, the fabric of their bond―and their very identities―begins to unravel. Reading group guide included."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Janette Turner Hospital received Australia's Patrick White Award for lifetime literary achievement, and is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. She lives in Columbia, South Carolina.
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Music and mythology combine in Janette Turner Hospital's look at love in the time of terrorism. Leela, a brilliant MIT graduate student in mathematics, follows street musician Mishka Bartok's bewitching violin solo down into the Boston subway. His music enchants her, and so does Mishka. But their love affair is interrupted when Mishka disappears after a series of terrorist bombings. Edwina Wren's voice is dewy, fresh, and clear as she narrates this complex, convoluted retelling of the Orpheus myth. She brings a sweet lyricism to the love affair, but she's less successful when the story descends into cruelty and revenge. Alternating between the lovers' early lives and the disastrous conditions of post-9/11 America, Hospital's rich, dense prose leads listeners down subterranean passages of the human soul. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
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- Publication date2008
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