Title: Thoroughly engaging.
Product review: I didn't know this was Mason's first novel until I tried to find others he has written. Anyone who understands the discipline and magic of music, who has an appreciation for history and culture, who remembers the sexual tension between a man and a woman, and who has the patience to let this story unfold will find this book seductive and engaging. I found myself idenfying with the characters in this book as I had when I first read The Catcher in the Rye, The Child Buyer and To Kill a Mockingbird, vastly different books from The Piano Tuner and each other, but similar with respect to the exploration of inner motivation, purpose and understanding of self in a world too big and dynamic to ever truly know. Mason's ability to step back and allow dialog and letters tell the story in thier full detail was like eavesdropping on a secret conversation while reading a diary -- a delightful, if guilty, pleasure.
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