Melnick, Daniel C.

Daniel Melnick is the author of the novel "Hungry Generations" about expatriate musicians living in Los Angeles during World War II and raising their children in the ensuing decades; in 1972, a young composer arrives in L.A. to work in a Hollywood studio, and to his peril he is initiated into the turbulent family of a great expatriate pianist living in Beverly Hills. It is "a thoughtful and engaging novel...for those who love music, supremely satisfying" - Times Literary Supplement. Another book by Daniel Melnick is a respected critical study of Proust, Mann, and Joyce -"Fullness of Dissonance...