Dissonance: A Novel - Hardcover

Lenard-Cook, Lisa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826330908 ISBN 13: 9780826330901

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 2003

Synopsis

When Anna Kramer, a piano teacher in Los Alamos, New Mexico, inherits the journals and scores of composer Hana Weissova, she is mystified by this bequest from a woman she does not know. As Kramer begins to play Weissova's music, however, some of her forgotten emotions resurface. Upon reading the dead woman's journals, which begin in 1945 after Weissova is released from a concentration camp, decades-old secrets that Kramer and her family have kept buried are uncovered.

"Dissonance . . . is bold in its scale, placing us at different eras in the concentration camp at Theresienstadt and in the scientific world of Los Alamos, New Mexico. . . . Few contemporary novels challenge the reader's conscience as Dissonance does, and fewer still inspire love so profoundly."--Kevin McIlvoy, author of Hyssop

"A fine, clear, spare novel about music, the mysteries of the past, and the struggle to make meaning out of our present lives. In language that is always melodious, [Lisa] Lenard-Cook writes luminously of Europe and New Mexico, of the years of the last century that were its most brutal and the years at its close that were its most perplexing. Dissonance is a work of beauty."--Russell Martin, author of Picasso's War

Dissonance has been selected for 2004 Durango-La Plata Reads! by the Durango, Colorado, Public Library.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Dissonance, Lisa Lenard-Cook’s novel of love, war, and forgiveness, has been selected for the 2004 Durango-La Plata County Reads! program, Chief Librarian Sherry Taber recently announced. Residents of the southwest Colorado community will read Dissonance this summer and gather in the fall in groups to discuss its themes, characters, and meaning.

From the Inside Flap:

"Dissonance . . . is bold in its scale, placing us at different eras in the concentration camp at Theresienstadt and in the scientific world of Los Alamos, New Mexico. . . . Few contemporary novels challenge the reader's conscience as Dissonance does. . . ."--Kevin McIlvoy, author of Hyssop

About this edition

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0826330908
• ISBN 13: 9780826330901
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 196