Broken Consort

Alan French #4

by James Gollin

Gollin, James, Broken A Novel Of Suspense

200 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1989

About the author

James Gollin, born in 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri, began to study piano at age 9 in suburban New York. A graduate of Yale, Gollin published several highly-regarded works of non-fiction (on life insurance, retirement policy and the finances of the Catholic Church) before turning to music as a major field of interest. Gollin has served as editor of a quarterly devoted to early music and has also written four novels featuring the Antiqua Players, a quintet specializing in early music, whose members find themselves diverted from their struggles in the gritty world of New York music by -- among other matters -- espionage, criminal fraud and homicide. PIANIST, the life story of concert pianist EUGENE ISTOMIN, is Gollin´s second musical biography. His first, PIED PIPER, THE MANY LIVES OF NOAH GREENBERG, won a 2002 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award as one of the previous year´s "outstanding books" on a musical subject. Gollin lives with his wife, the art critic Jane Feder Gollin, in New York City.