New York: Random House, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel, third book, by this highly praised young writer. This story of a cellist, a child prodigy who loses his gift abruptly at age 18, and 17 years later finds his life once again unexpectedly disrupted, is a brief but powerful novel. Salzman himself plays the cello. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-394-570103.