Book description
Jonathan Coe's Pentatonic is a daring and original story
about family and memory inspired by music.
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. The story is
simultaneously available as a digital download with the piece of music
which originally inspired the story.
Praise for Jonathan Coe:
'Probably the best English novelist of his generation' Nick Hornby
'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' David Nicholls
Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. He is the author of
eight bestselling novels including What a Carve Up! and The
Rotters' Club, and a biography of the novelist B. S. Johnson,
Like a Fiery Elephant, which won the 2005 Samuel Johnson
Prize for best non-fiction book of the year.
