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...The Goldfinch , by Donna Tartt, Little, Brown, RRP£20/$30 Tartt’s last book was published in 2002, so a new novel is an event....
...Bassist and co-vocalist Mattie Safer, a ringer for nerdy actor Rick Moranis, camply declaims his Donna Summer impression....
...Adès makes the piece thoroughly his own, yet the verses often serve to define the melodic structure, perhaps most tellingly in the short vocal phrases of the two gorgeous duets for Miranda and Ferdinand,...
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