"A novel by the author of The Man Who Saw Everything about wayward selves, femininities, sexualities, avatars, alter egos, and the twin poles of compassion and cruelty that exist within all of us"-- At the height of her career, piano virtuoso Elsa M. Anderson walks off the stage in Vienna, mid-performance. Now she is in Athens, watching a woman purchase a pair of mechanical dancing horses in at flea market. Elsa wants the horses, too, but there are...

With his life constantly in flux as he lives through many historic upheavals, Roland Baines, haunted by lost opportunities, searches for comfort through music, literature, friends, sex, politics and love, struggling against global events beyond his control that have shaped his existence and memories. When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War, eleven-year-old Roland Baines is stranded at a boarding school. His vulnerability...

"Richard Dreyfuss and Amy Irving are two classically trained concert pianists who find themselves both competing for one of the most prestigious awards in the music world. The last thing they need in their lives is to fall in love, but when they do, how will it affect the greatest professional moment of their lives?" -from back cover

Elizabeth Carleton is a gorgeous and dazzling concert pianist. Seemingly she has it all, until her wealthy husband is murdered and she becomes the prime suspect. Three equally charming men arrive from her past offering assistance and protection. But who is she to trust? Is her husband's murderer still at large? And what do these men want? As Elizabeth tries to prove her innocence, other forces are at work. Set in the steamy streets of Paris and dangerous...

A surrealistic novel of a man who finds himself in a strange city, not knowing what he is doing there, but everyone seems to know him. What is more, he must be important because people ask him for favors. As he goes from encounter to encounter, the man discovers himself. By the author of The Remains of the Day.