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Chicago Tribune – February 27, 2005 -- A rich and
ambitious novel about love, music and madness --
By Laura Demanski -- Beautiful Inez by Bart Schneider, Shaye Areheart,
353 pages, $24 -- In Bart Schneider's new novel, "Beautiful Inez,"
words function a little like worry beads. The narrator and the
characters linger on, fondle and manipulate them, recalling their
roots and cognates, jumping to their synonyms and homographs. One
character mulls the difference between "trusting" and "trustworthy."
Another broodingly devises sentences using "fathom" as a noun and a
verb. But wordplay can be a dangerous...
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Star Tribune – Minneapolis – St. Paul – February
13, 2005 -- Fiction review: 'Beautiful Inez' by Bart Schneider --
Reviewed By Eric Friesen --
I loved Bart Schneider's pitch-perfect "BlueBossa," a novel set in 1970s
San Francisco and loosely based on the life of jazz trumpeter Chet
Baker. With its short-riff paragraphs -- now fierce, now serene --
Schneider gave us an unsparing, unsentimental and unforgettable
portrait of a gifted musician in the dark heart of jazz music.
In "Beautiful Inez," also set in San Francisco but a decade earlier,
he takes us into the even more arcane and impenetrable world of the
classical symphony orchestra. Here again, music provides the
intricate setting for a profoundly human story...
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Booklist -- January 2005 – Starred Review --
Schneider, Bart. Beautiful Inez. Feb. 2005. 352p. -- Crown/Shaye
Areheart, $24 (1-4000-5442-7). -- Schneider returns not only to
San Francisco in the early 1960s, the setting he evoked so vividly
in Secret Love (2001), but also to several of the main characters
from that novel. The focus this time, in a sort of prequel, is on
Inez Roseman, a violinist with the San Francisco Symphony and the
wife of civil-rights attorney Jake Roseman, the hero of the earlier
novel. Whereas Jake is a whistling crusader, happily fighting to
make life better, Inez is deeply melancholic and, as the novel
opens, contemplating suicide...
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Publishers Weekly – November 11, 2004 --
Beautiful Inez -- Schneider, Bart --
ISBN: 1400054427 Shaye Areheart Books, Published 2005-02, Hardcover,
$24.00 (368p) --
In
this prequel to the author's 2001 novel, Secret Love , Schneider, founding
editor of the Hungry Mind Review, delivers a polished, faintly old-fashioned
tale of a violinist doomed to unhappiness in early 1960s San Francisco. At
40, ice princess Inez Roseman plays in the San Francisco Symphony and is a
well-known soloist. Gifted with perfect pitch and blond Swedish beauty, she
is married to prominent civil rights lawyer Jake...
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