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Dissonance: A Novel  by Stephen Orr

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September 2012, no. 344

Dissonance: A Novel  by Stephen Orr

Wakefield Press, $27.95 pb, 408 pp, 9781862549456

Dissonance: A Novel  by Stephen Orr

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September 2012, no. 344

Percy Grainger has been the subject of a number of books (most notably a 1976 biography by John Bird), a play (A Whip Around for Percy Grainger, 1982) by Thérèse Radic, and a feature film, Passion (1999), by Peter Duncan. He was an avid letter-writer, and his correspondence has been anthologised and critiqued. Thanks to his eccentric way of life and sometimes erratic behaviour and opinions – his famously close relationship with his mother, Rose, his self-flagellation, dubious theories of race and culture – the composer has also long been the subject of salaciousspeculation. Grainger was a large personality, and conjecture about his habits and personal tastes has often over-whelmed considerations of his modest, yet important, output as a composer and arranger.

Anthony Lynch reviews 'Dissonance' by Stephen Orr

Dissonance: A Novel 

by Stephen Orr

Wakefield Press, $27.95 pb, 408 pp, 9781862549456

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