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Love is Blind

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Exactly what Brodie is doing there is a mystery that will remain unresolved for almost the entire book.

At once an intimate portrait of one man's life and an expansive exploration of the beginning of the twentieth century, Love is Blind is a masterly new novel from one of Britain's best loved storytellers. Complicating matters is Brodie’s tuberculosis, a constant threat that dials up the book’s tension and, along with an old-fashioned duel in St. One couldn’t avoid the fact that it was probably not going to end well for poor old Brodie and his rotten lungs.I liked little snippets such as that although Brodie became fluent in French, it was owing to sheer hard work – he never mastered Russian or German, so clearly wasn’t a natural linguist – somehow this minor detail interspersed in the story made him more real. Even if the chances of winning were genuinely 2-to-1 (in practice, roulette is biased to the house) the expected winnings are zero.

The novel is set in the late 19th and early 20th century, focusing on Brodie Moncur, a Scottish piano tuner.But there’s no philosophical armature to “Love Is Blind,” only the most convoluted of bildungsromans.

He also wrote the speculative memoir Nat Tate: an American Artist -- the publication of which, in the spring of 1998, caused something of a stir on both sides of the Atlantic. The premise of the story involving the fortunes of a piano tuner in the 1890s who ends up getting employed by a celebrated virtuoso concert pianist may seem an odd one for a thriller but when Brodie Moncur embarks on an affair with the volatile John Kilbarron's mistress what has already been a fascinating read starts to evolve into a novel with an air of menace about it. Sure enough, after Brodie and Lika embark on a dangerous affair under John Kilbarron’s nose and the “brown, watchful eyes” of his brother, calamity soon arrives, though from a shocking and completely unforeseen quarter.The son of a popular, fundamentalist minister he is the first of his large family to move away from the family manse and pursue his career in nearby Edinburgh. Yet as this is 1897, and as the Russian is a doctor in his late thirties who is staying in the Pension Russe, drinking fermented mare’s milk in a bid to keep consumption at bay, and as Chekhov did all of those things too, I think we can safely say that we have Anton on deck. What kind of a world would it be where nothing ever went wrong, where everything stayed the same, life followed a designated path – family was adorable, friends and lovers were faithful and true? Love is Blind offers a fictional historical account of the emotion, madness and heartbreak involved when you love someone who is attached to another.

I didn't know how was all going to play out but I really wanted some closure, some happiness for Brodie. Love Is Blind is by no means terrible, but it certainly isn’t one of Boyd’s best and I can only give it a ve I found myself pulled in to this story from the very first pages but it is safe to say that when the affair reaches it's conclusion, the story takes a shocking twist after both parties look to exact their revenge on each other by different means. Set at the turn of the 19th century, it is a period piece drawing the life of a Scot, Brodie Moncur. Love is Blind is a tale of dizzying passion and brutal revenge; of artistic endeavour and the illusions it creates; of all the possibilities that life can offer, and how cruelly they can be snatched away.He takes us to the gloomy Scottish countryside and the Mediterranean shores of Nice, enveloping the reader in a time in European history when horses are being replaced by cars, women still have few choices, and men can settle their feuds without the interference of law. In the past he’s given us, for example, the fictive autobiography of John James Todd in The New Confessions; the fake journal of Logan Mountstuart in Any Human Heart; and the invented life of the artist Nat Tate, in the hoax biography of the same name. The story is somewhat of a picaresque, moving to many countries, where Brodie meets various people as he pursues Lida, vying for her competing attentions. There he comes up with a scheme to increase sales, and falls into the sphere of a once-celebrated and now slightly demodé Irish pianist, John Kilbarron, and his sinister brother and manager, Malachi.

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