Blue Roses

"In 1922 Percy Grainger was the most famous musician in the world, a pioneer of the recording age who celebrated his wedding at the Hollywood Bowl in front of 20,000 people. When his mother committed suicide, jumping from a New York skyscraper, it made the front page of the New York Times. Blue Rosesis a story of obsessive love, of grand ambition, and grand failure. By turns funny, sexy, and tragic it celebrates the life of the virtuoso pianist and avant-garde composer - aan artist who pushed against every boundary, until he lost everything. a Peter Salmon chartsaGrainger's fall fromacelebrity and success, athroughaartistic and sexual obsession,atoward the figure of tragedy he became, railing against a world that had forgotten him, in thisabrilliant fictional re-imagining of the life of one of Australia's most fascinating and enduringaartists.a "