Blissfully Romantic....A strange, terrific, spellcasting story. -- San Francisco Chronicle Bel Canto...should be on the list of every literate music lover. The story is riveting, the participants breathe and feel and are alive, and throughout this elegantly-told vel, music pours forth so splendidly that the reader hears it and is overwhelmed by its beauty. --Lloyd Moss, WXQR Glorious. --The New YorkerAnn Pratchett's award winning, New York Times bestselling Bel Canto balances themes of love and crisis as disparate characters learn that music is their only common language. As in Patchett's other vels, including Truth & Beauty and The Magician's Assistant, the author's lyrical prose and lucid imagination make Bel Canto a captivating story of strength and frailty, love and imprisonment, and an inspiring tale of transcendent romance.
