{"product_id":"apollos-shadow","title":"Apollo's Shadow","description":"\u003cp\u003eCelebrated Russian composer Alexander Glazunov carries heartbreak and disenchantment to exile in France in 1928. Can he rediscover the musical inspiration that saw his first symphony performed at the age of 16?\u003cbr\u003eIn this semi-biographical account of his life, we find Sascha in Paris, inexorably drawn back to his past in Tsarist Russia. To his love, before the February Revolution of 1917, for the gifted pianist Natascha Kaminskaya and the tragic consequences for them both. Like so many White Russian émigrés, Sascha longs to return home, but Stalin’s rise to power makes that prospect ever more remote.\u003cbr\u003eHe struggles to find artistic acknowledgement in an age when his ripe, late-Romantic style of music seems out of touch, and watches as Natascha’s wayward and impressionable sister Sonya falls under the malign influence of the ultra-nationalist politician Jean-Paul Morel.\u003cbr\u003eIn late middle age, can he exorcise the ghosts of his past and regain his brilliant powers of musical creativity?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Biographies \u0026amp; Memoirs, Historical\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 502\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Independently published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9798740081960\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Jones, David","offers":[{"title":"Very Good — £8.92","offer_id":48066702180529,"sku":"SB-9798740081960-C2","price":8.92,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/9798740081960.jpg?v=1792458322","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/apollos-shadow","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}