ENSEMBLE

Thomas Phillips • Literary Fiction / Philosophical Fiction / Music

Book Description

Set in Montreal, ENSEMBLE takes us through the throes of existential crises as lives and marriages are overturned by a man's restless yearning. A philosopher is suddenly forced to face the questions he lectures on when they materialize out of the theoretical and into the practical after he falls for a student in his class. Meanwhile, his wife — an accomplished musician — is left to deal with the disintegration of their marriage and the new silence that descends upon her life as she dissects her husband's inner workings and confronts the object of his desire.

Told in clinical honesty and prose of Satie-like restraint, ENSEMBLE deconstructs love and relationships in the 21st century — a novel of ideas that never loses its emotional core, tracking what it means to make art, to make a life, and to watch both come apart in the spaces between notes.

Author Bio

THOMAS PHILLIPS (born 1969) is a novelist, composer, and scholar whose work explores the intersections of literature, music, and philosophy. His fiction is characterized by formal precision, philosophical depth, and an abiding attention to the textures of everyday life.

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