01564cam a2200301 4500 131794674 TxAuBib 20130318120000.0 120510s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012017087 9780307701633 hbk. 0307701638 hbk. TxAuBib Gass, William H., 1924- Middle C : a novel / by William H. Gass. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. 395 p. ; 25 cm. Investigates the multifaceted nature of human identity and follows the experiences of Joseph, who flees Austria in 1938 and pretends to be Jewish before disappearing from London under mysterious circumstances. Graz, Austria, 1938. Joseph Skizzen's father, pretending to be Jewish, leaves his country for England with his wife and two children to avoid any connection with the Nazis. In London with his family for the duration of the war, he disappears under mysterious circumstances. The family is relocated to a small town in Ohio, where Joseph Skizzen grows up, becomes a decent amateur piano player, and creates as well a fantasy self-- a professor with a fantasy goal: to establish the Inhumanity Museum. 20130318. Music teachers Fiction. Identity (Psychology) Fiction. Self-presentation Fiction. Austrians Ethnic identity Fiction. Psychological fiction. TXOLT