This fine if elusive novel about a jazz giant echoes his art in both its style and its story-telling...A novel as oblique, elusive but quietly hypnotic as its hero's own playing. - Boyd Tonkin, The Independent
Owen Martell grew up in South Wales and studied at the universities of Aberystwyth and Oxford. He has published two previous novels in Welsh. He won the Wales Book of the Year Award for his first novel and was shortlisted for the same prize with his second novel. This is his first novel written in English.
An introspective, original novel…It is hard to write about figures
of recent history in a way that feels authentic and true, but Bill
Evans is drawn here in all his quirkiness and mutability…This novel
stands as a well-written lament. It is a clear-eyed exploration of
a jazz intermission, of the forced break in the chaos, and an apt
tribute to a music so full of life that even a pause, a silence,
can go down howling.
*Guardian*
This fine if elusive novel about a jazz giant echoes his art in
both its style and its story-telling…A novel as oblique, elusive
but quietly hypnotic as its hero’s own playing.
*Independent*
A sensitive depiction of an artist in mourning…A delicate and
affecting work of fiction…[Martell] writes with elegant
precision…Intermission is an impressive English-language debut, a
deft and sensitive depiction of a family shadowed by loss.
*Financial Times*
The mood music conjured up is evocative, reflective and
muted…Martell’s wonderful portrait…is as vivid as it is
sympathetic…Lingers in the mind like an elusive, mournful
melody.
*Daily Mail*
Superb.
*Irish Times*
A vivid description of the 1960s New York music scene, it has a
wonderfully noirish feel – and scoops our prize for best cover
design.
*Elle Decoration*
Martell uses his writing skills to immerse you in the sights,
sounds and culture of a pivotal moment in music history. While
expertly exploring the tragic true story of arguably the greatest
jazz pianist of all time, Martell has put himself on the map as one
of the most promising writers in the UK to date.
*Press Association syndicated review*
Written with real soul.
*The List*
For readers who revel in the beauty of great writing, there is much
here to enjoy.
*The Bookbag*
[A] highly accomplished account of a notoriously elusive topic, the
life of music.
*Book Oxygen*
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