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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: What could be saved
    sub title: bookmatched novellas and stories
  name:
    name part: Spatz, Gregory
    name part: 1964-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 226 pages ; 21 cm
  abstract: Going where most readers have never been--past the workshop door, behind the curtain to the hidden rehearsal space, and into the back room of a pawn shop or dealer's office, Gregory Spatz's new book delves deeply into the world of those who build, play, and sell (or steal) violins. This is a realm of obsession, of high-stakes sales and thefts, and of rapturous but also desperate performance escapades. Dense with detail, and peopled with a fabulously particular (yes, eccentric) ensemble cast, the linked pieces in WHAT COULD BE SAVED--two of novella length, and two stories--have the intense force and beauty of chamber music. "WHAT COULD BE SAVED initiates the reader into the mysteries of a secret society of artists and artisans, thieves and treasure hunters, forgers and true believers, all of whom idolize the nearly supernatural powers and traditions of the violin. Those old, priceless instruments are like keys that unlock the quintessence of music and beauty, but they are also 'the devil's box,' just as often counterfeits that sow delusion and disenchantment as they pass from acolyte to acolyte--player to player, luthier to luthier--through the centuries. Gregory Spatz has conjoined these stories into a masterly quartet that casts the same spell on the reader as on its characters. This collection is magical, hypnotic, brilliant."--Paul Harding.
  note: Gregory Spatz.
  subject:
    topic: Violin
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Violin makers
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Stringed instrument makers
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Violin in literature
  subject:
    topic: Short stories, American
  subject:
    topic: Novelle
  subject:
    topic: Novelle
  subject:
    topic: Short stories, American
  subject:
    topic: Stringed instrument makers
  subject:
    topic: Violin
  subject:
    topic: Violin in literature
  subject:
    topic: Violin makers
  classification: PS3569.P377 W4 2019
  classification: 811/.54
  identifier: 9781946482174
  identifier: 194648217X
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: DCH
    record creation date: 190516
    record change date: 20250318214320.7
    record identifier: in00004151313
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng