| Publication |
Orlando, Harcourt Inc., 2004.
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| Description |
xi, 208pBlack spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
Here are four stories by the author of Life of Pi. In the title novella, a very young man dying of AIDS joins his friend in fashioning a story of the Roccamatio family of Helsinki, set against the yearly march of the twentieth century whose horrors and miracles their story echoes. In "The Time I Heard the Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto with One Discordant Violin, by the American composer John Morton," a Canadian university student visits Washington, D.C., and experiences the Vietnam War and its aftermath through an intense musical encounter. In "Manners of Dying," variations of a warden's letter to the mother of a man he has just executed reveal how each life is contained in its end. The final story, "The Vita AEterna Mirror Company: Mirrors to Last till Kingdom Come," is about a young man who discovers an antique mirror-making machine that runs on memories and fashions a unique reflection of his relationship with his grandmother.
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| Contents |
The facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
The time I heard the Private Donald J.Rankin String Concerto with one discordant violin, by the American Composer John Morton
Manners of Dying
The Vita Aeterna Mirror Company : Mirrors to last till kingdom come
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| Standard Number |
9780151010905 Hb.
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