On p. 15, Will shows us his unique ability to become invisible. Henry comments on it after his interview of Fenton Kearney. Here's this interaction between Henry and Will, Henry speaking first:
'Do you know you were very good back there?'This idea of invisibility interests me. Joni Mitchell has a song about wishing she had a river so she could sail away. Kind of the same thing. In fact, I have the beginning of a novel about it. Ralph Ellison of course wrote his terrific novel Invisible Man. H.G. Wells wrote his novel, The Invisible Man , and H.F. Saint wrote his very engrossing Memoirs of an Invisible Man, published in 1987. There's also a non-fiction book entitled How to Become Invisible showing how to not show up anywhere so you can't be found. I'm interested, though, in a character who really is invisible. Sort of like Kafka's Gregor, who turns into some big cockroach-like bug in The Metamorphosis, the only short story Kafka ever finished, and one of my all time favorite short stories. These are all interesting stories. I recommend them to you.
'I was?' I said.
'I almost thought you'd become invisible.'
Anyway, if you're interested in invisibility, or anything else about this novel, post a comment. I'd like to know.
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Ian Kearney, the director of the Kearney Music School, an elite musical training school in Philadelphia, dies after a fall from a balcony during a recital. World-famous cellist, Henry Harrier, recently forced from the faculty, returns to investigate Ian's death when his prized former student is arrested. Henry shows through his brilliant and single-minded pursuit of the truth that, as usual, they have it all wrong. This Sherlock Holmes-type mystery leads the reader through the world of classical music and lays bare the conflicts which dominate the lives of talented adolescents when placed under the pressure of studying for a demanding, stressful, and often elusive career as a classical music performer. Henry Harrier is part John Le Carre's George Smiley, part Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes, and part Orlando Cole the beloved teacher, renowned chamber musician, and until his own retirement, the premier cellist of the Curtis Institute.
Tim was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on January 30, 1946. In 1951 he moved with his family to Schenectady, New York, where he lived through high school. He attended Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio, from 1964 to 1968. He graduated in 1968 with a B.A. in history and philosophy. He received his Ph. D. in history in U.S. history in 1980 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison after spending 2.5 years in the U. S. Army. Most of his army service was completed in Wuerzburg, Germany, from 1969-1971. In 1972 he returned to Madison to complete his doctoral study. His dissertation, Those Who Moved; Internal Migrants in American 1607-1840, combined the statistical analysis of genealogical and biographical data with the study of traditional literary diaries, letters, and journals.
