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At the height of her career, piano virtuoso Elsa M. Anderson walks off the stage in Vienna, mid-performance. Now she is in Athens, watching a woman purchase a pair of mechanical dancing horses in at flea market. Elsa wants the horses, too, but there are no more for sale. She travels across Europe, s...

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Main Author: Levy, Deborah (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
Edition:First American edition.
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Women pianists > Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) > Fiction.
Europe > Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
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Summary:At the height of her career, piano virtuoso Elsa M. Anderson walks off the stage in Vienna, mid-performance. Now she is in Athens, watching a woman purchase a pair of mechanical dancing horses in at flea market. Elsa wants the horses, too, but there are no more for sale. She travels across Europe, shadowed by the elusive woman who seems to be her double. -- adapted from jacket
Physical Description:198 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9780374602048
0374602042
Author Notes:Deborah Levy writes fiction, plays, and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, broadcast on the BBC, and widely translated. She is the author of highly praised novels, including The Man Who Saw Everything (long-listed for the Booker Prize), Hot Milk and Swimming Home (both Man Booker Prize finalists), The Unloved , and Billy and Girl ; the acclaimed story collection Black Vodka ; and her three-part autobiography, Things I Don't Want to Know , The Cost of Living , and Real Estate . She lives in London and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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