Distant Sound

by Gert Jonke

A composer who has already given up composing - because of his inability to notate the music of the spheres - becomes increasingly fixated on capturing a mysterious, eerie, distant sound, which he soon equates with all the things he desires most: the perfect woman, the perfect city, the perfect work of art. Obsessed with his impossible quest, the man breaks out of the asylum and begins a series of comic, dreamlike, and ultimately haunting adventures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564785262
• ISBN13: 9781564785268
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher