Music for Glass Orchestra (Masks)

This book is a big favourite of mine - I don't know of anything quite like it. Sexy, yes, but also highly cerebral, and at the same time funny and witty. The author writes especially well about music, generating a music all her own through the remarkable prose.

'Music for Glass Orchestra' is an ambititous and remarkably successful book. It deals with history, music, architecture, love in many forms, human and divine, perfect and painfully incomplete. The novels' narrative structure is rich as well as complex and Andreacchi's prose is rich and truly poetic. The author's remarkable imagination and erudition are used to great advantage.