All That Sang

By (author): Lydia Perovic

Obsession, unrequited passions and the power of music.

A visceral tale of obsession and creativity, unrequited passions and the power of music. A love story in which art is a foil to companionship, and the intellect an interlocutor of the heart.

In the utterly unique All that Sang, the second fiction by Lambda Literary Award-finalist Lydia Perovic, a Toronto opera critic on assignment in Paris falls in love with the subject she’s been sent to interview, France’s leading female conductor. But is the attention evenly matched, is genuine connection even possible?

Perovic guides us through the panorama that orbits contemporary courtship. The jilted lover, the housekeeper, the chiropractor, the manager, all take part in a chorus of voices that illustrate the unknowable creative spirit whose inaccessibility fires the writer’s obsession.

Reminiscent of the bold and inventive fictions of Ali Smith and Siri Hustvedt, postmodern refractions play with the reader’s sense of perspective to build the persona of affection, a figure of reality and imagination that we all recognize but can never truly access.

AUTHOR

Lydia Perovic

Lydia Perović has written for many Canadian, uk and u.s. media since 2001, including The Awl, n + 1, openDemocracy, Opera Canada, Xtra! and Toronto Standard. She grew up in the Communist Yugoslavia and moved to Nova Scotia in 1999. She has been living in Toronto since 2005.

Reviews

“This kaleidoscopic love story – told from many angles in elegant, crystalline prose – creates a world that holds the reader skillfully in between. Between Toronto and Paris, music and listening, lust and loss. Unrequited and erotic, All That Sang is a story of longing beautifully sent to us in the manner that only true longing can convey.’ -Jacob Wren, author of Polyamorous Love Song



“I loved this book, the gripping intelligence of its desire and the ways in which it maps lust and existence, place and devotion. Lydia Perovic’s slender, passionate novella grieves, remembers and celebrates a universe.” -Madeleine Thien, author of Dogs at the Perimeter


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Obsession, unrequited passions and the power of music.



A visceral tale of obsession and creativity, unrequited passions and the power of music. A love story in which art is a foil to companionship, and the intellect an interlocutor of the heart.

In the utterly unique All that Sang, the second fiction by Lambda Literary Award-finalist Lydia Perovic, a Toronto opera critic on assignment in Paris falls in love with the subject she’s been sent to interview, France’s leading female conductor. But is the attention evenly matched, is genuine connection even possible?

Perovic guides us through the panorama that orbits contemporary courtship. The jilted lover, the housekeeper, the chiropractor, the manager, all take part in a chorus of voices that illustrate the unknowable creative spirit whose inaccessibility fires the writer’s obsession.

Reminiscent of the bold and inventive fictions of Ali Smith and Siri Hustvedt, postmodern refractions play with the reader’s sense of perspective to build the persona of affection, a figure of reality and imagination that we all recognize but can never truly access.

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Details

Dimensions:

138 Pages
8in * 5.25in * 1in
1lb

Published:

April 01, 2016

Country of Publication:

CA

Publisher:

Vehicule Press

ISBN:

9781550654387

Book Subjects:

FICTION / Literary

Featured In:

Pride Reads

Language:

eng

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