Copies of this title will be available at the Duncan Falls/Philo Branch Library.
\nIn twelve luminous stories set across three centuries\, The History of Sound examines the unexpected ways the past returns to us and how love and loss are entwined and transfo rmed over generations. In Ben Shattuck's ingenious collection\, each story has a companion story\, which contains a revelation about the previous\, paired story. Mysteries and murders are revealed\, history is refracted\, and deep emotional connections are woven through characters and families.< /p>\n
The haunting title story recalls the journey of two men who meet a round a piano in a smoky\, dim bar\, only to spend a summer walking the Ma ine woods collecting folk songs in the shadow of the First World War\, for ever marked by the odyssey. Decades later\, in another story\, a woman dis covers the wax cylinders recorded that fateful summer while cleaning out h er new house in Maine. Shattuck&rsquo\;s inventive\, exquisite stories tra nsport readers from 1700s Nantucket to the contemporary woods of New Hamps hire and beyond&mdash\;into landscapes both enduring and unmistakably mode rn. Memories\, artifacts\, paintings\, and journals resurface in surprisin g and poignant ways among evocative beaches\, forests\, and orchards\, rev ealing the secrets\, misunderstandings\, and love that linger across centu ries.
\nWritten with breathtaking humanity and humor\, The History o
f Sound is a love letter to New England\, a radiant conversation between p
ast and present\, and a moving meditation on the abiding search for home.<
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