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The Page Turner (1998)

af David Leavitt

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At eighteen, Paul Porterfield's dream is to play the piano at the world's great concert halls, yet so far the closest he has come has been turning pages for his idol, Richard Kennington, a former piano prodigy on the cusp of middle age. Then, on vacation in Rome with his mother, Pamela, Paul encounters Kennington a second time. A love affair begins between the two - one that is complicated when Pamela misconstrues Kennington's attention toward her son as a sign of interest in her. Alarmed by the situation, Kennington flees Rome for New York, where Joseph Mansourian, his manager (and lover) of twenty-five years, awaits him; Paul, too, goes to New York to study at Juilliard. They do not see each other. Yet the brief affair will affect their lives in ways that neither could have predicted. "Why can't people have what they want?" It is around this question that David Leavitt's new novel so movingly pivots. By turns comic and heartbreaking, shrewd and intimate, The Page Turner testifies not only to the tenacity of the human spirit but to the resiliency of the human heart.… (mere)
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Interesting regarding gay life and relationships
  JimandMary69 | Mar 26, 2024 |
What seemed like a light-weight coming of age gay romance set in the higher reaches of the piano world began to gain resonance as it linger in my mind afterwards. ( )
  sjnorquist | Mar 31, 2023 |
This was a bit of a let down after having read other books by this author. Paul was a bit of a whiner and an entire bottle of qualudes wouldn't calm Pamela down. I felt kind of bad for Richard. He was such a spoiled loser. The book could have benefited from a lot more description as it felt stark at times. ( )
  Connorz | Jan 4, 2023 |
In spite of the title, I didn't find this book to be very page-turning. I couldn't bring myself to care about the characters, because they were pretty flat. The story didn't have much of a plot either, and it ends right in the middle of things -- the kind of ending that can be wonderful at the pen of a great writer, but is often only just frustrating.

Most of the characters are gay and the novel centers around an affair the protagonist had with a famous pianist. I thought it was unrealistic that Paul, an 18-year-old with no sexual experience whatsoever, would simply accept his homosexuality without any kind of soul-searching or teeth-gnashing. I did think the part about his mother's discovery of this fact, and her reaction to it, was well done though.

I suppose I might recommend this to someone especially interested in gay literature. But otherwise, give it a pass. ( )
  meggyweg | Sep 21, 2009 |
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The page turner in question is not exactly the book itself, which is a perfectly enjoyable read.
''The Page Turner'' is a portrait of the aspiring artist as a young man, but one of the book's major failings is that Paul remains more symbol than character.
This novel, on the other hand, is somewhat less melodious, the result of disillusioned, and disillusioning, experience.
tilføjet af sneuper | RedigerNew York Times, Elizabeth Gleick (Apr 26, 1998)
 
The Page Turner's detailed examination of the world of professional music rings true. Its routine closetry underlies a series of key misunderstandings in the plot. If there is a problem, it is related to the novel's authentic capture of this milieu.
The Page Turner is pleasurable, orderly, sophisticated - and as readable as its punning title signifies. But I longed for the neatness to unravel, and for the untoward, abrupt, dysfunctional here-and-now to take hold of Paul, of Kennington and, yes, the author himself.
tilføjet af sneuper | RedigerThe Independent, Richard Canning (Mar 24, 1998)
 
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At eighteen, Paul Porterfield's dream is to play the piano at the world's great concert halls, yet so far the closest he has come has been turning pages for his idol, Richard Kennington, a former piano prodigy on the cusp of middle age. Then, on vacation in Rome with his mother, Pamela, Paul encounters Kennington a second time. A love affair begins between the two - one that is complicated when Pamela misconstrues Kennington's attention toward her son as a sign of interest in her. Alarmed by the situation, Kennington flees Rome for New York, where Joseph Mansourian, his manager (and lover) of twenty-five years, awaits him; Paul, too, goes to New York to study at Juilliard. They do not see each other. Yet the brief affair will affect their lives in ways that neither could have predicted. "Why can't people have what they want?" It is around this question that David Leavitt's new novel so movingly pivots. By turns comic and heartbreaking, shrewd and intimate, The Page Turner testifies not only to the tenacity of the human spirit but to the resiliency of the human heart.

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