The Goldberg Variations

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Mark Glanville. The Goldberg Variations

The Goldberg Variations. MARK GLANVILLE

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VARIATION ONE – The Football Hooligan

VARIATION TWO – The Oxford Classicist

VARIATION THREE – The Opera Singer

VARIATION FOUR – The Jew

ARIA DA CAPO – THE VEDL

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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‘Like C4’s ‘Faking It’ makeovers, The Goldberg Variations opposes two purposes seemingly too different for one person to undertake successfully. Glanville’s ongoing battle between football and music fascinates. One facilitates the other – his first trip to OldTrafford was a reward for passing Grade 5 clarinet. One impinges on the other – concerned about protecting his opera voice, Glanville lowers it an octave on the terraces. The emerging dialectic evolves alongside traditional rites-of-passage (first solo trip abroad, first love, etc) and against a backdrop of troubled sexuality – teenage frustrations kindled by his sisters and an inability to climax with girlfriends. Glanville’s openness is seductive and his memoir is disarming.’

Time Out

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‘Well, you don’t look Jewish.’

‘Of course I do.’

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