
The Distant Sound
A Novel
by Gert Jonke, Jean M. Snook
289 pages· 2010· ISBN 9781564785268
About
A composer who has already given up composing--because of his inability to notate the music of the spheres!--the man becomes increasingly fixated on capturing a mysterious, eerie, distant sound, which he soon equates with all the things he desires most: the perfect woman, the perfect city, the perfect work of art. Obsessed with his impossible quest, the man breaks out of the asylum and begins a series of comic, dreamlike, and ultimately haunting adventures as he tries to locate the source of the sound that consumes him . . . and instead finds the root cause of all his failures.
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