{"product_id":"9780571320851","title":"The Music: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis brilliant sequence of short stories, first published in 1995, sees James Hamilton-Patterson serving up fables and fictions on creativity, tradition and loss, all of them linked by the love of music and underpinned by a musical theme. An escaped lunatic who thinks he is Schumann interrupts a quiet family picnic; a Croat refugee gifted at the guitar enters and unsettles a woman's life; and a Chinese master-teacher struggles with a pupil who would dare to modify a musical canon.\u003cbr\u003e 'Written in a wide range of voices... (these tales) reveal an imagination as wide-ranging as it is dazzling. Astonishingly versatile... extremely funny.' Christina Patterson, \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   'Beautiful, eerie, witty, astute, dazzling.' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   'As perfect a collection of short stories as you're ever likely to come across.' Paul Sussman, \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47170193654000,"sku":"9780571320851","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571320851_p0.jpg?v=1763718994","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571320851","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}