James Kearney

>Over Christmas and New Year, I read the second 900-page volume of David
>Cairns' biography.  It's brought on another of my Berlioz binges, with the
>usual symptoms of nerves and exaltation.  Cairns' insights revealed new
>relationships between Berlioz' later works, and deepened my understanding
>of works I thought over-familiar.

Is this the biography of Berlioz that is being nominated for a Book(er)
prize?

Bob Draper
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