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The Loser centers on a fictional relationship between piano virtuoso Glenn Gould and two of his fellow students who feel compelled to renounce their musical ambitions in the face of Gould's incomparable genius. One commits suicide, while the other-- the obsessive, witty, and self-mocking narrator-- has retreated into obscurity.
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The Loser: A Novel (Phoenix Fiction Series)
November 15, 1996, University Of Chicago Press
in English
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The loser
1996, University of Chicago Press
in English
- University of Chicago Press ed.
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The loser
1991, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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"...Account of an imagined relationship among three men--including the late piano virtuoso Glenn Gould, who meet in 1953 to study with Vladimir Horowitz. In the face of Gould's incomparable genius, his two fellow students renounce their musical ambition, but in very different ways."--P. [4] of Cover.
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