Mariana—the devoted child of a world-famous cellist who has promised her the Silver Swan, an invaluable Stradivarius—discovers secrets in her father’s life that shake her world. The follow-up is a more compelling mystery than its highly praised predecessor, but it depends on familiarity with that earlier book for full enjoyment. This one should have been easy, since it was just a name and a telephone number left with the hospital receptionist, and he could have conveniently lost the piece of paper or simply thrown it away. It's interesting that two of the main characters are a cello and a dead man. Before moving to Ann Arbor, she worked at Bennington College in Vermont, where she and her husband, the writer Nicholas Delbanco, together with the late John Gardner, founded the Bennington Writing Workshops. THE SILVER SWAN: Is the first full length New Adult novel in Amo Jones ‘Elite Kings Club’ series. I dropped out of the medicine—didn’t have the stomach for it.”, Quirke let a beat of silence pass, then asked: “What are you doing now?”, Billy Hunt gave a heavy, unsteady sigh. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Silver Swan: A Novel (Quirke Book 2). Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. He caught a glimpse of her in shadow at the far end of the room. “Did she leave anything?” Billy peered at him, uncomprehending. I was in first year when you were in your last. Big broad forehead, definitively broken nose, a thatch of wiry red hair, freckles. He hung his suit jacket on the back of his chair and pulled off his tie without undoing the knot and opened two buttons of his shirt and sat down at the cluttered metal desk. In Quirke’s not very clear recollections of him Billy was a sort of overgrown schoolboy, by turns cheery or truculent and sometimes both at once, loping out to the sports grounds in wide-legged knicks and a striped football jersey, with a football or a bundle of hurley sticks under his arm, his knobbly, pale-pink knees bare and his boyish cheeks aflame and blood-spotted from the still unaccustomed morning shave. He lit a cigarette and his eye drifted again to the paper with Billy Hunt’s message on it. The Silver Swan by Elena Delbanco is a story about a beautiful cello called the Silver Swan. Nice. Quirke did not recognize the name. “Identifying the body, I mean. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Black's writing paints vivid, descriptive vistas and creates an engaging atmosphere. Here they are: (1), . Does this book contain inappropriate content? -- Benjamin Black (or John Banville), The Silver Swan 'The Silver Swan' is Benjamin Black's (alter ego of John Banville) second Quirke novel. At last a face began to assemble itself in Quirke’s laboring memory. Musicians—Fiction. The characters lives stand out but the music takes center stage. It started off so slowly, and then the middle of the book really wasn't all that interesting. Delbanco has long been engaged in the world of classical music. Book Summary The inimitable Quirke returns in another spellbinding crime novel, in which a young woman's dubious suicide sets off a new string of hazards and deceptions Two years have passed since the events of the bestselling Christine Falls, and much has changed for Quirke, the irascible, formerly hard-drinking Dublin pathologist. Names and characters are the product of the author’s imagination and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead is entirely coincidental. He put the scrap of paper on a corner of his desk and tried to ignore it. The aroma of fried and boiled lunches assailed him. than from huge enthusiasm for Banville, but no Benjamin Blacks. We went with different crowds. By the age of nineteen she emerges as a star cellist in her own right, and is seen as the inheritor of her father's genius. The deepening realization of the inter-relations among the four characters is intricate, nicely done, and give the book a page-turner quality. “Never mind that,” he said, sounding more weary than impatient. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. People were drinking, talking, and plucking hors d’oeuvres off trays passed by the catering staff. When a detective calls Japanese business magnate Kenji Watanabe with new information on his father's murder, Kenji tries to keep the truth a secret. Easygoing but prone to scrap when provoked, hence the smashed septum. 'The Silver Swan' is Benjamin Black's (alter ego of John Banville) second Quirke novel. That morning a party of Gardai had gone out in a launch and lifted poor Deirdre Hunt’s naked body off the rocks on the landward shore of Dalkey Island. At the dead center of summer the day was hot and muggy, and in the streets the barely breathable air was laden with a thin pall of mauve smoke, and he was glad of the cool and quiet of his windowless basement office in the pathology department. Squinting at the scrap of paper on the corner of the desk, he lifted the telephone receiver and dialed. Hell or high water-bullets or blood… The job always gets done. He did not relish the prospect of Billy Hunt and his dead wife. Unable to add item to List. Sold by ampolanco and ships from Amazon Fulfillment. With its vivid, intense evocation of 1950s Dublin, and intricate, psychologically complex storyline, The Silver Swan is "even more engrossing than last year's Christine Falls" (Entertainment Weekly). The mystery in the story when finally revealed was a surprise to me. This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. The accent was at once flat and singsong, with broad vowels and dulled consonants. Maybe he was tipsy? Billy looked down, and his lower lip began to tremble and he clamped it babyishly between his teeth. Relieved to know she had, after all, come, Claude had to shift his attention to a man at his elbow, who introduced himself as a board member of Lincoln Center. has been added to your Cart. A debut novel about a daughter grappling with the legacy of her famous and imposing cellist father, the secrets he has hidden from her, and the fate of his great Stradivarius cello. I didn’t really expect you to remember me. —Afterwards, out of curiosity, he had upended another whiskey glass, this time one he had not emptied, to find if it was really possible to see himself in the bottom of it, but no reflection had appeared there. A note.”, “No, no, nothing like that.” He gave a crooked, almost sheepish smile. I do hope the remaining Quirk novels I have yet to read are of more literary consequence than a cheaply written shady 10 cent paperback from under the counter of a post war bookshop. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Unable to add item to List. He spotted him straightaway, sitting in one of the side booths, unnaturally erect on the red plush banquette, with a cup of milky coffee untouched before him on the gray marble table. “She’s after doing away with herself.”. After years of searching, he acquires a glorious cello, the Silver Swan, a rare Stradivarius masterpiece long lost to the world of music. The Silver Swan is a Stradivarius with beautiful silver swans on the carved wooden scroll. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. The Silver Swan is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics publications and related media, commonly as an adversary of the superhero Wonder Woman. Something caught his attention, however. A girl going out passed him by; she wore a white dress and carried a broad-brimmed straw hat; he caught the warm waft of her perfumed skin that trailed behind her. Mostly he put them off, mumbling about pressure of work and the like. Picador; First edition (February 3, 2009). They are looking for Twinkle the Elf and need your help. Quirke was recalling a very fat woman who had thrown herself into the Liffey, from whose chest cavity, when he had cut it open and was clipping away at the rib cage, there had clambered forth with the torpor of the truly well fed a nest of translucent, many-legged, shrimplike creatures. The sound of Billy Hunt’s voice was no help; he did not recognize it any more readily than he had the name. The sh!t food. I found myself driven to read in order to visualize the settings and environments with such engaging prose. The interior of the café was dark to his eyes after the glare outside. Matter of Course (A Glennon Normal School Historical Mystery Book 10). It has been two years since the events of Christine Falls, the bestselling novel that introduced the world to an irascible Dublin pathologist named Quirke. The Silver Swan . me gusta, aunque la narración es un poco mas lenta de lo que acostumbro a leer, sobre todo en policíaco (mas o menos). The Silver Swan: A Novel (Quirke Book 2) - Kindle edition by Black, Benjamin. Paperback. Title: The Silver Swan Series: Swashbuckler Trilogy (#3) Author: Kelly Gardiner Genre: Children's Rating: 1.5 stars To be honest, I really wasn't a fan of this book. I was mad into the sports—hurling, football, all that—while you were with the arty lot, with your nose stuck in a book or over at the Abbey or the Gate every night of the week. Quirke seems to me the dullest, least communicative, least interesting, least vividly rendered sleuth ever. This tale is one of the significance of great compositions and how important the arts are to life. In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham chronicles one of the great underexplored lives of the twentieth century and the very archetype of the modern woman. Read this novel more for the writing than the story, Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2016. Occasionally it happened that way; someone would float up without warning out of his past, his drinking past, someone he had forgotten, asking for a loan or offering to let him in on a sure thing or just wanting to make contact, out of loneliness, or only to know that he was still alive and that the drink had not done for him. The brooding. Billy, still looking down, shook his head. The latter half of the novel plot line veers off into distracting absurdity in two ways; Black continually has Quirk sleeping with every woman whose case he is involved in, and he incongruously veers off into a lurid sex subplot that seems to have been included to add a( not very believable for the era ) detailed element of sleaze which was distracting and unnecessary for the storyline. Please try your request again later. “They brought her to St. Vincent’s. Something went wrong. Elena Delbanco has recently retired after teaching for twenty-seven years at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Pharmaceuticals. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Some words he slurred, hurrying over them. Title. A good proportion of readers have probably read another Black before and know what they want. There is something about Dublin in the 50s that makes sense for a noir novel. “It’s the wife,” Billy Hunt said. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Quirke's beloved Sarah has died, his surrogate father lies paralyzed by a stroke, and he's been sober for half a year. Quirke, an irascible, hard-drinking Dublin pathologist, investigates the apparent suicide of Deidre Hunt, the beautiful young wife of an old acquaintance, and discovers many things that might better have remained hidden, as well as grave danger to those he loves.--From publisher description. Since then, the character has undergone several updates as comic book … Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. The first half was atmospheric in the dark, mid century Irish style Black pens adeptly. Con: The twist in the plot was apparent too early in the story. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. “Don’t touch that girl, she’ll burn your fingers,” FBI director J. Edgar Hoover once said about Doris Duke, the inheritor of James Buchanan Duke’s billion-dollar tobacco fortune. Please try your request again later. Even the Dead: A Quirke Novel (Quirke, 7). Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2015. Black's prose style is amazing. “The Silver Swan by Elena Delbanco is an intimate, passionate, triumphant story of love and betrayal. Most of the story was predicable. Grab it today. Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2017. ", Fancy writing is not good writing, especially in a murder mystery, Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2015. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, includes free international wireless delivery via, © 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. . Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. It was lunchtime and the place was busy. A Novel. He imagined himself turning on his heel and following after her and taking her by the elbow and walking with her out into the hazy heat of the summer day. 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