Charles Jessold, Considered As A Murderer
A Fiction, Mystery, Historical book. They change what they do not like, said Jessold, referring to the singers. And they do not...
Leslie Shepherd, a music critic nearing the end of his life, reflects on the shocking murder-suicide that rocked London society years before. The unlikely killer - Charles Jessold, composer, prodigy, and Shepherd's collaborator on the opera that was set to open the following night; the victims - Jessold's wife and her vocal coach, found poisoned in her marriage-bed.Wesley Stace is the author of two bestselling novels, Misfortune (2005) and By George (2007). He is also a folk/pop singer-songwriter who goes by the stage name John Wesley Harding...
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too much detail can have a distancing effect Wesley Stace, Charles Jessold, Considered As A Murderer // They change what they do not like, said Jessold, referring to the singers. And they do not like what they cannot remember. That accounts for the basic truth of folk-song. Wesley Stace, Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer // (These younger composers were generally male, but then composers were almost exclusively male. Even the female composers were almost exclusively male.) Wesley Stace, Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer //
Surprising and gripping, this book is intellectual suspense at its best. Initially worried that its basis in the world of opera would be a negative aspect, my reluctance to read the book was quickly replaced by captivation and a hunger to read more. Thrace sets his stage as well as any good operatic composer and I found myself immersed... While Misfortune was a darkly gothic novel involving gender-bending amongst the landed gentry and By George was in turn a melancholy exploration of ventriloquism and the decline of the great British variety show tradition, with Charles Jessold Considered as a Murderer, his third novel, Wesley Stace proves once again to be a master of... I have enjoyed Wesley Stace's earlier work. Particularly By George. But I really didn't like Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer. The narrator "biographer" is not likable or interesting, and his subject isn't either. The first half of the book - essentially the "false" biography of the main subject is rather boring. The only thing...
