Cover of Maestro

Maestro

by Peter Goldsworthy

Publication
First published 1989
ISBN
9780207168017

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Against the backdrop of Darwin, that small, tropical hothouse of a port, half-outback, half-oriental, lying at the tip of northern Australia, a young and newly arrived southerner encounters the 'maestro', a Viennese refugee with a shadowed past. The occasion is a piano lesson, the first of many.

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Australia · 1980s

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