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The Metropolis Case (2010)

by Matthew Gallaway(Favorite Author)

3.44 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0307463427 (ISBN13: 9780307463425)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Crown

review 1: A first novel that reads and feels like a report from the field of a funny, sexy, ecstatic and fully lived life. Gallaway's book is about time, and the Smiths, TRISTAN UND ISOLDE, and 9/11; the Velvet Underground, New Jersey, New York; 1870's Paris, Washington Heights today... The miracle is that from these disparate elements the author has formed a sexy, well-wrought urn that holds them all, that turns them into a Wagnerian elixir that -- well, like TRISTAN -- is always eternal, and always modern, and crashes into you, hurling you through the air, if you let it, into your own extended liebestod --It's indescribable, pretty much. The best I can do is to say THE METROPOLIS CASE IS opera, and the joy of it is that you don't have to like opera to love THE METROPOLIS CASE. As... more I did.
review 2: A very enjoyable, entertaining read, broken into several vignettes of engaging characters bound by their artistry. You have to be rooting for them against the odds of achieving success and/or happiness. About opera in many ways, the story is also flamboyant. I liked the "gay" sensibility of the whole thing. For me there was not enough immersion in a central character or two to offer the heft of a novel. less

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