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“Blissfully Intimate….A strange, terrific, spellcasting tale.” – San Francisco Chronicle

“Bel Canto…ought to be on the list of every literate music enthusiast. The story is normally riveting, the individuals breathe and feel and so are alive, and throughout this elegantly-told novel, music pours forth so splendidly the audience hears it and it is overwhelmed by its beauty.” -Lloyd Moss, WXQR

“Glorious.” -The New Yorker

Ann Patchett’s award being successful, New York Instances bestselling Bel Canto balances themes of love and problems as disparate individuals learn that music is their only common vocabulary. As with Patchett’s other books, including Truth & Beauty as well as the Magician’s Helper, the author’s lyrical prose and lucid imagination make Bel Canto a captivating story of power and frailty, like and imprisonment, and an motivating story of transcendent romance.