Dec 4, 2008

The Acolyte | The Acolyte

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The Novel

Told in the first person by “the acolyte,” Paul Vesper, Thea Astley’s novel traces the career of a fictional Australian musician and composer named Jack Holberg. Beginning in obscurity as a piano player in Grogbusters, a dreary little Queensland town, the blind Holberg eventually gains international recognition as a composer. Vesper, who had met Holberg during his less renowned period, gives up an engineering career to serve the great man—in a sense, to become his eyes.

After Holberg spends several years studying in Europe and making a name for himself,...

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