![]() ![]() ![]() When his ambitions are ignored by the city's staid musical elite, Delage's finds his situation suddenly transformed by a chance meeting with Amalia von Schalla, an elegant grande dame of Viennese society. He walks the great musical city, offering an impassioned defense of his piano's technical superiority to any who will hear it. (they contain) stories within stories, of enigmatic characters and sly questions with many possible answers." In The Voyage, Piano manufacturer and salesman Frank Delage travels to Vienna from Sydney, hoping to introduce a new design to replace the respected old pianos of Europe. The New York Times Book Review wrote that Bail's writing "exhibit(s) a surfeit of imagination, skill and style. Murray Bail is best known for his internationally best-selling novel Eucalyptus, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year and winner of the 1999 Miles Franklin Award. ![]()
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