Coe, Jonathan: The Closed Circle

Coe, Jonathan: The Closed Circle
Jonathan Coe, The Closed Circle. London: Viking, 2004, p. 261.

"His eyes were wide open. He picked up the mobile phone from the bedside table, turned on the backlight and learned that it was now 2.04. He groaned, and switched on the radio. It was the second movement of Bruckner’s fourth symphony: his least favourite movement from his least favourite work by his least favourite composer."



My thanks to Wolter Seuntjens for supplying this information.