Pentatonic, Jonathan Coe
Pentatonic, Jonathan Coe
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Pentatonic
A Story of Music

Author: Jonathan Coe

Series: Penguin Specials

Narrator: Jonathan Coe

Unabridged: 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 11/28/2012


Synopsis

Pentatonic, written and read by Jonathan Coe, is a daring and original story about family and memory, originally inspired by the accompanying music from Danny Manners.

When a family celebrates the prize-giving day at their daughter's secondary school, thoughts turn to their own childhoods. The father remembers his living room piano recital, recorded on a well-worn cassette tape. The mother remembers her own father's war tragedy. As the father searches for the physical reminder of his past and the mother longs to forget her own, they confront the breakdown of their marriage in the present.

In Pentatonic, Jonathan Coe movingly explores the memories that unite us and the experiences that drive us apart.

This story is also available as a Penguin ebook.

Text by Jonathan Coe
Music by Danny Manners
Produced by Ken Brake at Regal Lane Studios

About Jonathan Coe

Jonathan Coe was born in 1961 in Lickey, a suburb of south-west Birmingham. His first novel, The Accidental Woman, was published in 1987. His bestselling novels include What a Carve Up! and The Rotters' Club. He is the recipient of many prizes and awards, including both Costa Novel of the Year and Prix du Livre Europeen. He won France's Prix Medicis for The House of Sleep and Italy's Premio Flaiano and Premio Bauer-Ca' Foscari.


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Coe has huge powers of observation and enormous literary panache Sunday Times

Jonathan Coe's a fine writer who seems to try something new with every book

There are bits that make you laugh out loud and others which make your heart ache Guardian (on The House of Sleep)