“The Bellwether Revivals renders the cruelties and frailties of genius with acuity and tenderness, exploring the naïve sophistication of bright young minds, the moral immunity granted to coteries of privilege and the true nature of mastery in art. Seductive, resonant and disquieting, Benjamin Wood’s novel captures strains and cadences, qualities of music that are rarely rendered except in sound.”/5(). THE BELLWETHER REVIVALS is the debut work by Benjamin Wood. What drew me to it in the bookshop was the fact that there was obviously an examination between genius and insanity. At the very beginning of THE BELLWETHER REVIVALS, you are essentially told /5(). · Benjamin Wood was born in and grew up in northwest England. He is the author of four novels. His debut The Bellwether Revivals () was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Book Prize, and won France's Prix du Roman Fnac/5().
"The Bellwether Revivals is a stunningly good debut novel, a thrilling story of music and its hold on a group of young people's minds and lives. Benjamin Wood writes with vigor, precision and intensity, with a story that will keep readers up all night." - Steven Galloway, bestselling author of The Cellist of Sarajevo. The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood is told from the POV of a group of brighter than hell somethings who are attending Cambridge. That is, except for the central character who is a working class guy named Oscar, a nurse's aid at a retirement home near the university. The Bellwether Revivals Benjamin Wood. Viking, $ (p) ISBN Buy this book. This novel begins with the denouement: two people lie dead, and a third sits nearby, barely.
“The Bellwether Revivals renders the cruelties and frailties of genius with acuity and tenderness, exploring the naïve sophistication of bright young minds, the moral immunity granted to coteries of privilege and the true nature of mastery in art. Seductive, resonant and disquieting, Benjamin Wood’s novel captures strains and cadences, qualities of music that are rarely rendered except in sound.”. THE BELLWETHER REVIVALS is the debut work by Benjamin Wood. What drew me to it in the bookshop was the fact that there was obviously an examination between genius and insanity. At the very beginning of THE BELLWETHER REVIVALS, you are essentially told what happens at the end of the book. Benjamin Wood’s ambitious, psychologically compelling debut, The Bellwether Revivals, centers around twenty–year–old nursing home assistant Oscar Lowe and the opulent, heady world of brilliant Cambridge students into whose circle he is drawn. It explores the complicated relationships between scientific skepticism and credulous faith, music and healing, genius and madness, class divisions and the love that can transcend them.
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