Deceptive Cadence (Used Hardcover, Signed by Author) - Eugenia Zukerman

Condition: This book is in Very Good Condition, with only slight wear on the edges of the dustcover. The pages are clean and unmarked. The flyleaf is inscribed by the author to the original owner. Tucked inside the back cover is a ticket to a brunch celebrating the author's January 18, 1981 solo performance with the South Dakota Symphony, along with a newspaper article about Zukerman's book and the concert.

Tibor Szabo is young, talented, and idolized. A Hungarian-born concert pianist of the first rank, adored in public and in private for his fiery performances, his devotion to music, his gallantry and charm, he moves from triumph to triumph--in New York and San Francisco, London, and the great cities of the Continent. Eugenia Zukerman's witty and polished debut novel is Tibor's story, told with an insider's knowledge of today's restless international music scene.

Music is the heartbeat of this book--the submission it demands from a truly great artist, the satisfaction it brings, and the discontent. Tibor's harrowing and relentless schedule suggests a growing conflict between the demands of his successful career and a sensitive man's desire for the respite and warmth of personal commitment. His love for Sally Fraser, a willful, spirited English painter, and his friendship with the novelist Werner Rawlings seem to promise the stability he craves. But the threesome becomes a dangerous triangle, and Tibor, now doubting everything--music, the gratification of performance, even life itself--astonishingly disappears before a major concert.

The crisis in Tibor's life resolves, finally, like a deceptive cadence, into an unexpected key; his renewed dedication to the unique and perilous art of making music brings this unusually entertaining and moving novel to its satisfying close.

Since her New York debut in 1971, Eugenia Zukerman has been ranked among the handful of internationally renowned flutists. Her work as a writer has appeared in The New York Times, Vogue, and other publications.