For details, please see the Terms & Conditions associated with these promotions. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 23, 2016. Genre: Jazz. Written-By – Gus Kahn, Isham Jones. And, of course, payment is required in this readable, engaging, and startling novel. Listen free to Billie Holiday – Music For Torching (It Had To Be You, Come Rain Or Come Shine and more). They both have affairs with neighborhood wives, passively allow other sexual peccadilloes to happen to them, and then wonder why they are so miserable. Gary Krist of The New York Times wrote that this novel by Homes was "far more effectively unsettling [than her previous The End of Alice], mainly because she serves up her feast of deviance in a narrative that is much more difficult to dismiss. What the Best Sides of Music For Torching Have to Offer is Not Hard to Hear The biggest, most immediate staging in the largest acoustic space The most Tubey Magic, without which you have almost nothing. What happens when people are selfish and self obsessed, but have children. In fact the author has practically included a cliched checklist: marriages, affairs, child raising, parents, social gatherings, jobs, commuting , home owning et al. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 1, 2015. "Paul notices that the color of her eye shadow is Fiction, and her lipstick is called Sheer Fraud.... 'What happened to the dining-room table, Elaine? The reader has an uncomfortable realization of looking at embarrassing pictures of the suburban life most of us recognize . The house is not destroyed, merely damaged, and rather than being free, they have made their trap that much tighter. The final sentence with its double entente is masterful! A.M. Homes Music for Torching is a dark, twisted book, a satirical disection of a seemingly normal suburban couple and their lives. referencing Music For Torching With Billie Holiday, LP, Album, Mono, 33CX 10019 Label is the white 'trumpeter' label and the tax code embossed on one label is RT. Torching can also refer to the continuing affairs that Paul has and to the unexpected lesbian encounter that Elaine has with a friend who up to that point has seemed less human and more "Stepford" wife. Music For Torching was published on April 21, 1999. Music for Torching lays bare the realities of marriage, family, and suburban life in a provocative way. Thus the reader is left with no sense of what became of anyone. Music for Torching’s Elaine exemplifies this lifestyle, as the book opens with her husband Paul chastising her for the amount of fat in their dinner. We'd love you to buy this book, and hope you find this page convenient in locating a place of purchase. sellmyrecords, gboe, recordvanguard, Jennydockan. For larger libraries with a Homes fan base.ABeth E. Andersen, Ann Arbor Dist. In the first chapter, they set fire to their house due to the intense boredom of their everyday routines. And for much of Music for Torching, I enjoyed the trade-mark bone-dry, black and bleak humour. Paul and Elaine live ugly lives doing ugly things to each other. Find album release information for Music for Torching - Billie Holiday on AllMusic It begins as a typical Westchester County weekend: a dinner party followed by a barbecue at which everyone drinks too much and reveals their boredom and unhappinessexcept that the Weisses top their neighbors in acting out. I find Ms. Homes to be an excellent writer and have enjoyed all of her work. "[1] He described this novel as "nasty and willfully grotesque. 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