Intermission
Intermission by Owen Martell, published by William Heinemann in 2013, is a work of fiction that explores a significant moment in American music history. Set in New York during June 1961, the narrative centers on the Bill Evans Trio and the tragic events that follow the untimely death of bassist Scott LaFaro. The novel delves into the aftermath of this loss, focusing on the lives of four individuals connected to the tragedy, and examines themes of grief and personal disconnection.
Readers will find that Intermission presents a poignant portrayal of the emotional landscape surrounding a pivotal moment in the jazz scene of the early 1960s. Through measured and evocative prose, the story captures the complexities of mourning and the impact of loss on both personal and artistic levels. This edition, comprising 169 pages, invites readers to engage with the intricate interplay of city life and the cultural backdrop of the time, offering a unique representation of the era’s musical heritage.
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New York, June 1961. The Bill Evans Trio, featuring twenty-five year old Scott LaFaro on bass, play a series of concerts at the Village Vanguard that will go down in musical history. Shortly afterwards, LaFaro is killed in a car accident, and Evans disappears. Intermission tells the story of what happens next.
In measured, evocative prose, Intermission takes a period from the life of one of America’s great artists and fashions it into a fiction of extraordinary imaginative skill and ambition. The novel inhabits the lives of four people in orbit around a tragedy, presenting an intense and moving portrait of the burden of grief, and of a man lost to his family and to himself. It is also a conjuring of a pivotal moment in American music and culture, and a unique representation of the jazz scene in the early 1960s.
Intermission is a novel of pure control and power, certain to establish Owen Martell as one of the most promising young writers in Britain today.
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