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Bewitched by the haunting violin she hears in the subway under Harvard Square, MIT mathematician Leela-May Magnolia Moore falls in love at first listen with mysterious musician Mishka Bartok. This ambitious but flawed romantic thriller is a post-9/11 reworking of the Orpheus myth by one of Australia's most acclaimed novelists. The nightmare begins with a series of terrorist bombings, overlapping with disappearances by Mishka. Leela starts tailing her lover, only to be snatched off the street and interrogated by members of a shadowy private security force. Their leader: none other than Cobb Slaughter, the former Special Forces op who has loved/loathed her since their blighted childhoods in the South Carolina hamlet of Promised Land. Is Cobb simply tormenting Leela for his own sadistic pleasure, or could the Australian-born Mishka really be a terrorist? Hospital (Due Preparations for the Plague) sends the anguished Leela across three continents searching for answers, but extended flashbacks and florid prose slow the pace. Despite the novel's timely, provocative premise, it unfortunately isn't only Orpheus who goes astray. (Oct.)
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
Review
“A rich, wise, alarming novel, energized by Hospital’s masterful suspense. . . . Leaves readers feeling hope and grief and a terrible sense of urgency about our own lives at this fragile moment in history.” — The Boston Globe
“No book by this nervy, dynamic Australian-born author is ever anything less than intricate and deeply disquieting. . . . Lushly orchestrated, Orpheus Lost answers our grief and fear with an emotional expressiveness more visceral than words, with the candor of music — and of myth.” — The Los Angeles Times
“Turner Hospital’s language is sensuous and vivid, especially when she’s getting inside her characters’ heads. Sometimes their perceptions are expressed in simile and metaphor, but just as often we are immersed in their dreams or illusions. We get a keen sense of how strong dreams can be, and how thin the line is between illusion and reality.” — The Winnipeg Free Press
“It must be a great challenge for an author to take a Greek myth and rewrite it in a modern context. It must be doubly satisfying, therefore, when the finished story is as good as Janette Turner Hospital’s latest book Orpheus Lost.” — Bookseller and Publisher (Australia)
“Turner Hospital has become such a master of the drama of fiction [and] has managed to engage with the terrible matter of terrorism in a way that is not only serious but, in the narrative sense, engrossing.” — Australian Literary Review
“Janette Turner Hospital is writing fiction that is literary in quality and formal design and in the ambition it displays but will also keep you on the edge of your chair or reading past your bedtime.” — The Age (Melbourne)
“Hospital shows her dazzling skill at thriller writing. [She is] a master-planner who never falters for an instant. Nor do the pace and intensity let up. . . . A consummate, nail-biting example of a myth retold for modern times.” — Australian Book Review
“One of the most powerful and innovative writers in English today.” — The Times Literary Supplement (U.K.)
“No book by this nervy, dynamic Australian-born author is ever anything less than intricate and deeply disquieting. . . . Lushly orchestrated, Orpheus Lost answers our grief and fear with an emotional expressiveness more visceral than words, with the candor of music — and of myth.” — The Los Angeles Times
“Turner Hospital’s language is sensuous and vivid, especially when she’s getting inside her characters’ heads. Sometimes their perceptions are expressed in simile and metaphor, but just as often we are immersed in their dreams or illusions. We get a keen sense of how strong dreams can be, and how thin the line is between illusion and reality.” — The Winnipeg Free Press
“It must be a great challenge for an author to take a Greek myth and rewrite it in a modern context. It must be doubly satisfying, therefore, when the finished story is as good as Janette Turner Hospital’s latest book Orpheus Lost.” — Bookseller and Publisher (Australia)
“Turner Hospital has become such a master of the drama of fiction [and] has managed to engage with the terrible matter of terrorism in a way that is not only serious but, in the narrative sense, engrossing.” — Australian Literary Review
“Janette Turner Hospital is writing fiction that is literary in quality and formal design and in the ambition it displays but will also keep you on the edge of your chair or reading past your bedtime.” — The Age (Melbourne)
“Hospital shows her dazzling skill at thriller writing. [She is] a master-planner who never falters for an instant. Nor do the pace and intensity let up. . . . A consummate, nail-biting example of a myth retold for modern times.” — Australian Book Review
“One of the most powerful and innovative writers in English today.” — The Times Literary Supplement (U.K.)
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