Showing posts with label The Music Lesson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Music Lesson. Show all posts
Monday, May 14, 2012

Finding Vermeer

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My second novel, The Music Lesson , is about an IRA splinter group's plot to steal a Vermeer from the Queen. In the course of the sto...
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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Finding Vermeer?

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The FBI arrested the murderous 81-year-old Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger this morning at his condo in Santa Monica, where he had been living...
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Thursday, January 6, 2011

The Music Lesson redux

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This week, the new Broadway paperback of my second novel, The Music Lesson , was published. I am thrilled that my 1999 novel has steadily ap...
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

The Unluck of the Irish

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I am in West Cork at the moment, the setting for The Music Lesson . I included many instances of traditional Irish superstitions and beliefs...
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

The West Cork Landscape

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I am in Ireland at the moment, in the West Cork village that inspired my second novel, The Music Lesson (which I am pleased to report will ...
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Monday, March 29, 2010

Wide Duchess or Narrow Lady?

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I am in Ireland at the moment, finishing up a revision of my own screenplay adaptation of The Music Lesson . It's a great task for a wri...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

A Very Complicated Toast to Vermeer

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My second novel, The Music Lesson , concerns an IRA splinter group plot to steal a Vermeer from the Queen. It came out in 1999, and was foll...
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Friday, September 11, 2009

Vermeer Moves the Earth

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Every time I pass a construction site and see one of Vermeer's diggers or chippers at work, I regret that I didn't make a reference ...
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