Maestro

by Peter Goldsworthy

Angus & Robertson, 1989, [First Edition], ISBN 0207162891, hardcover, dustjacket, 

Very Good Condition, some rubbing to edges, corners slightly bumped, dustjacket shows a little wear with rubbing to covers and edges, dusty top fore-edge (see photographs)

'Maestro is an extremely evocative, tender and lyrical novel.  With its contrasts of colourful new Australia with old Europe, of North with South, of the Wet with the Dry, it is itself a kind of compelling, alternating musical performance.  it is a novel where Goldsworthy - award-winning poet and short-story writer - allows himself for the first time to trust fully all of the emotional resources of language, and to explore the whole power of art to beguile as well as entertain.'