The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt
eBook - ePub

The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt

A Novel

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt

A Novel

About this book

Recounting the remarkable life of Dame Lena Gaunt—music's most modern musician as the first theremin player of the 20th century—this novel about an octogenarian and former junkie is as geographically diverse as it is culturally and musically rich. An offer to play her unusual instrument, where sounds are produced not through touch but instead through hand movements in the air, leads Lena to revisit her life—from her discovery of music to falling in love and from Southeast Asia to Australia and Europe. Vignettes of growing up, the glittering years on the world stage, melancholy, war-time periods, and growing old all compose the story of a woman whose life is made and torn apart by those she gives her heart to.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. TITLE
  3. CONTENTS
  4. COTTESLOE 1991: TRANSFORMER
  5. SINGAPORE, PERTH 1910–1927: THE SYMPHONY OF HER DRESSING TABLE
  6. COTTESLOE 1991: MYTHOLOGIES
  7. MALACCA 1927: A LOW HUM
  8. COTTESLOE 1991: LIKE JAMMING, LIKE JAZZ
  9. SYDNEY 1927–1932: WITHOUT TOUCHING
  10. COTTESLOE 1991: MO, AND CARO AND JONNO, TRA-LA
  11. DUNEDIN 1932–1937: GREY STONE, AND DAMP
  12. COTTESLOE 1991: WEATHER TURNING
  13. COTTESLOE 1937–1944: GRACE NOTE
  14. COTTESLOE 1991: GHOST NOTES
  15. COTTESLOE, EUROPE, COTTESLOE 1944–1991: SINGING MY DAUGHTER DOWN
  16. COTTESLOE 1991: THE LOWEST NOTE IN THE UNIVERSE
  17. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  18. COPYRIGHT