Loco-motive

ISBN-13: 9780692752449 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 340 str.

Jack Kohl

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On New Year's Eve of 1859, Henry David Thoreau wrote: "A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as his brain. We exaggerate the importance and exclusiveness of the headquarters." And at the start of the new millennium, a pudgy young writer, Rex Shell, engages his ownlegs and arms and takes up running to lose weight. When a new job takes him from Atlanta to The Pauktaug Press on Long Island's north shore, young Shell takes noticeof a pair ofhardly youthful local men who show promise of shattering the world record for the 10-kilometer distance. One of these runners happens to be Shell's new editor, Lawrence Hare. Through Hare, Shell is about to learn that all is notwell inthe bucolic village of Pauktaug-or initsrunning community-where death may comefrom trying to make the most of life, andwhere the mind may be lost and murder found if one believes the "whole duty of man may be expressed in one line, -Make to yourself a perfect body." Readers of That Iron String, the firstnovel in the Pauktaug Trilogy, will find another eerieadventurein the realm of philosophical-thriller via the provocativeLoco-Motive. Praise for That Iron String, the first novel in the Pauktaug Trilogy "I know of no other recent novel that gets to grips so well with the contradictions and heartache of a professional piano career. Kohl's complex plot weaves realities with abstract philosophical discussions explaining the coming death of traditional repertoire, which he calls Music (with a capital M)."
-Michael Johnson, Facts & Arts "That Iron String is a haunting psychogram of two young musicians that at times lets me wish I wouldn't have known anything about classical music education, the competition circus and the entire business of making music."
-Wiebke Kuester, ConcertoNet.com "A refined and deliciously-entangled thriller, the novel addresses the risk, jubilation and uncertainty of becoming a concert pianist, a decision that author Jack Kohl-himself a professional pianist-presumably understands."
-Gordon Hamilton, Limelight Magazine"