The Fiddler Is a Good Woman

by Geoff Berner

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A biography that doesn't quite exist, about a violinist who can't be found, as told by people who don't agree on much.



Novelist Geoff Berner has been tasked with writing a biography of DD, a mysterious, charismatic, chimerical musician who has, it seems, dropped off the face of the earth. In the course of his search for DD, Berner interviews her friends, ex-bandmates, ex-lovers, and others. They paint such variable portraits of her that each successive attempt to describe her casts doubt on the previous testimony. As his project is taken over by the lively, infuriating, entertaining tales, a wounded, gifted, and complex DD starts to emerge from all the eyewitness accounts and swear-to-God true stories.



Who is DD? Where did she go? And why didn't that book get written? Travel through a world of knockabout musicians and chancers, on the trail of an inimitable artist who truly lives in the moment, for better or worse.
  • ISBN13 9781459737105
  • Publish Date 14 October 2017
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint Dundurn Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 232
  • Language English