Bellweather Rhapsody

Author: Racculia, Kate

Edition: Reprint

Features:

• Mariner Books

Number Of Pages: 352

Details:

Winner of a 2015 Alex Award "Delightfully odd...A fine cast of misfits and dreamers and foes. A." —Entertainment Weekly   “A deliciously dark confection of a novel, and one of the most thoroughly enjoyable books I’ve read in years.” —Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You   “Warm, entertaining and thoughtful, and a glorious celebration of music.”

— Minneapolis Star Tribune  

Fifteen years ago, a murder-suicide in room 712 rocked the grand old Bellweather Hotel and the young bridesmaid who witnessed it, Minnie Graves. Now hundreds of high school musicians have gathered at the Bellweather for the annual Statewide festival; Minnie has returned to face her demons; and a blizzard is threatening to trap them all inside. When a young prodigy disappears from infamous room 712, the search for her entwines an eccentric cast of conductors and caretakers, teenagers on the verge and adults haunted by memories. A genre-bending page-turner, full of playful nods to pop-culture classics from  The Shining to Agatha Christie to  Glee,  Bellweather Rhapsody is a winning new novel from a writer to watch.   “Funny and exuberant, twisty and captivating . . . For its darkness and its glee, I loved this novel.” 

— Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore   “A rollicking story . . . Racculia’s exuberant voice inspires laugh-out-loud moments while also bringing to life broken people who find solace in each other’s heartaches.” — Wisconsin State Journal

Reviews:

"Swells with dramatic plot points and back stories...a daffy coming-of-age story." —The New York Times Book Review

“Delightfully odd . . . Racculia, clearly a fan of Agatha Christie, stuffs the Bellweather with a fine cast of misfits and dreamers and foes . . . The pleasures of this great yarn are not just its full heart but its clever head. A” —Entertainment Weekly

“Warm, entertaining and thoughtful, and a glorious celebration of music . . . Fans of Racculia’s first book, This Must Be the Place, will recognize her quirky style and her great affection for her oddball characters.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune

“A rollicking story . . . Racculia’s exuberant voice inspires laugh-out loud moments while also bringing to life broken people who find solace in each other’s heartaches . . . [Bellweather Rhapsody] hits all of the right notes for a darkly awesome summer read.” —Wisconsin State Journal

“An entertaining and enthralling yarn . . . This is the stuff that dreams and nightmares are made of: what one is willing to go through—or not go through—when you’re infused with a dazzling talent.” —PopMatters

“Bellweather Rhapsody is funny and exuberant, twisty and captivating. Racculia tells the truth here, about art and life and the many trajectories that talent can take. She’s also written the most resonant descriptions of music—how it really works in the head and the heart—that I’ve ever read. For its darkness and its glee, I loved this novel.” 

— Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore

“Witty and smartly moving, Kate Racculia’s Bellweather Rhapsody offers a heart-thumping mystery of music and murder, wherein the past repeats itself, and in doing so becomes malleable again: just as an orchestral score can be rearranged to new effect, so an unsolved crime sometimes returns to shock and surprise anew—and in both cases the outcomes are as unpredictable as they are suspenseful.”

— Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods

"[A] deft mix of horror, high school drama, locked-door mystery (or, rather, locked-hotel mystery), twin-seeking-twin closeness, adult (and teen!) romance, and some truly adult violence and guilt. At its heart, Bellweather Rhapsody as about talent: what it means to have it, what it means to lose it (if that’s possible), how on earth you’re supposed to wield a magic you can barely understand before you’re even old enough to drive, and what kind of adult you might turn out ...

EAN: 9780544483910

Release Date: 02-06-2015

Languages: English

Item Note: Great shape- pages are unmarked and sharp.Has a remainder mark. Paperback Used - Like New Ships fast! 2015Reprint

Item Condition: UsedLikeNew

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Paperback