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AN INTERVIEW REVIEWED
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MUSIC IN THE STUDY
A novel by John O’Loughlin
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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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