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Introducing
AN INTERVIEW
REVIEWED
Or
MUSIC
IN
THE STUDY
Long Prose by John O’Loughlin
Which can be
previewed via
the link below the following Centretruths
editorial:–
This novel was
written by John O’Loughlin just after Cross-Purposes (1979) and is both more structurally complex and more
intellectually subtle
than its stylistic precursor. Basically,
the plot revolves around the efforts of Anthony Keating, a young
correspondent
for an arts periodical based in the West End (of London), to conduct a
prearranged
interview with world-famous composer Howard Tonks
when, to his dismay, the person who would normally have conducted it
became
sick at the last moment and had been obliged to cancel all his
schedules. Owing to lack of experience in
this
field Keating fails to complete his
assignment on the specified day and is obliged to accept an alternative
date
for later that same week, when Mr Tonks is
due to
return from a professional engagement in Birmingham.
However, the composer is detained there an
extra day and, due to a combination of unforeseen factors, Keating
ends-up
seducing his daughter ... with disastrous consequences for both of them! For they are discovered in
flagrante delicto by Mr Tonks'
elderly
housekeeper, and word eventually gets back
to the composer himself, causing serious allegations and
misunderstandings
which put not only the interview, but Keating's very career as a
correspondent
in jeopardy! Ultimately only the
composer's daughter, Rebecca, can save Anthony from additional
humiliation,
though not before several turns in the plot have led him into deeper
trouble
with his boss and various colleagues and duly resulted in his dismissal. But thanks to Rebecca's influence with her
father the interview eventually goes ahead, and the resulting dilemma
for 'Arts
Monthly' is whether to publish or shelve it, in view of the surrounding
circumstances and the dismissal of its principal instigator. It is the composer himself, however, who has
the final say, and it comes both as a shock and a delight to young
Anthony
Keating. – Those looking for philosophy in An Interview Reviewed
will
find food for thought, as will those for whom humour is a sine
qua non of
literary entertainment. – A Centretruths
Editorial.
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