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Tenderwire

Claire Kilroy

2006269 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2006
first published
  • 2006Faber · 269 pages · ENGISBN 9780571229741
  • 2006Harcourt, Inc. · 294 pages · ENGISBN 9780156032049

"Eva Tyne leaves her home in Ireland for New York to play in the New Amsterdam Chamber Orchestra. She collapses after her solo debut, checks herself out of the hospital prematurely, and embarks on a chaotic and dangerous odyssey. She falls in love with a mysterious man and becomes obsessed with a rare violin of dubious provenance, for which she must pay in cash. But consumed by obsession, her pursuit of the violin becomes a nightmare of paranoia: Haunted by the ghost of her father, racked with jealousy, and unsure whom she can trust, Eva is pitched into a desperate psychological conundrum as her desires threaten to destroy her." -- from the publisher.

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