Julian Sterling
Listen to The Unintentional Virtuoso by Julian Sterling as a bilingual audiobook with synchronized read-along text in English and Thai.
Alistair Vance had spent the better part of four decades cultivating a life of exquisite, albeit thoroughly unremarked, quietude. Residing in the coastal borough of Oakhaven, his primary obsession was the uncompromisingly rigorous architecture of Baroque counterpoint. To Alistair, Johann Sebastian Bach was not merely a composer; he was the cosmic standard by which all human order ought to be measured. Unfortunately for Alistair, his manual dexterity lagged egregiously behind his intellectual reverence. His fingers, heavy and inexplicably prone to sudden muscular betrayals, transformed pristine polyphony into muddy, staccato chaos. He practiced in secret, cloistered within the echoing vault of St. Jude’s municipal sanctuary during the twilight hours. The sanctuary housed a majestic, vintage organ powered by modern hydraulic pumps, gifted to the town by a wealthy philanthropist. Wearing a crisp linen shirt and cotton trousers, Alistair would sit at the console, meticulously adjusting his spectacles. He dreamed of one day delivering a flawless rendition of the Art of Fugue to an empty room. Fate, however, possessed a notoriously capricious sense of dramatic irony.