Symphony in Blood and Rust

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A composer's search for meaning spirals into a surreal journey through art, madness, and the bloodstained beauty of a dying world.When rising composer Jonathan Brendel agrees to collaborate with Marga-an unpredictable performance artist and former college friend-his life begins to unravel in strangely beautiful ways.Driven by his pursuit of artistic greatness and haunted by a motherless upbringing on a Wyoming ranch, Jonathan takes a journey far from the safety of symphonies and conservatories. What begins as a musical commission spirals into a globe-spanning, genre-defying odyssey through the industrial underbelly of Cleveland, the Toronto underground, and the spectral corners of Jakarta's wet markets. Along the way, he finds himself pursued by mercenaries, elusive flying objects, and a dingo with a vendetta-all while confronting the aching contradictions between meaning and madness, brilliance and destruction, love and loyalty.Blending dark wit with lyrical intensity, Symphony in Blood and Rust is a mind-bending exploration of identity, obsession, and the limits of art in a disintegrating world. G.H. Karshner's new novel is a daring literary fugue-equal parts satire and symphony-for readers who crave stories that unsettle, inspire, and refuse to fade quietly.

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Pagina's: 304, Paperback, Horne Fisher Press