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- Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
- ISBN: 0553381539
- WAPI (Tower ID): 101125031
- Release Date: March 1, 2002
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #48185 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #4921 in Fiction & Literature (See Top 100 Fiction & Literature Bestsellers)
- #2 in Sagas (See Top 100 Sagas Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "Beach Music" by Pat Conroy to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Beach Music"Browse more products related to "Pat Conroy"Review"'Beach Music' is one of those delicious novels that has everything to make your weekend-with-a-book great: characters that stick to your ribs, dialogue that can crackle as sharply as twigs in a campfire. It has intelligence, it has heart. It is suffused with Conroy's regional sense, with the tragedy and loss that hang over the post-Civil War South like a miasma, causing it to spend too much of its substance on an impersonation of itself. Best, it has Conroy the storyteller at full throttle, as if he were pounding it out on two or three typewriters at the same time." "'Beach Music' is a chaotic, often exasperating but completely lovable novel." "'Beach Music' is blockbuster writing at its best. A whole passel of people are going to stay awake late this summer compulsively turning its 640 pages before they close it in satisfaction." "Rich in haunting imagery and seductive, suspenseful storytelling, a worthy successor to 'The Prince of Tides'." "...emotionally suspenseful....'Beach Music' is clearly his best yet." "...when Conroy writes about the pleasures of eating boiled crab on tables covered with yesterday's newspaper, when he celebrates the low country's amphibious charms or confronts his mixed feelings about bubba culture, there are flashes of a gifted novelist." "South Carolina overflows from his pages, sentimental and unforgiving, soft as sleepy pears and hard as turtle shells." Publisher's notePat Conroy is without doubt Americas favorite storyteller, a writer who portrays the anguished truth of the human heart and the painful secrets of families in richly lyrical prose and unforgettable narratives. Now, in Beach Music, he tells of the dark memories that haunt generations, in a story that spans South Carolina and Rome and reaches back into the unutterable terrors of the Holocaust.Beach Music is about Jack McCall, an American living in Rome with his young daughter, trying to find peace after the recent trauma of his wife's suicide. But his solitude is disturbed by the appearance of his sister-in-law, who begs him to return home, and of two school friends asking for his help in tracking down another classmate who went underground as a Vietnam protester and never resurfaced. These requests launch Jack on a journey that encompasses the past and the present in both Europe and the American South, and that leads him to shocking--and ultimately liberating--truths.Told with deep feeling and trademark Conroy humor, Beach Music is powerful and compulsively readable. It is another masterpiece in the legendary list of classics that his body of work has already become.PAT CONROY is the author of five previous books: The Boo, The Water Is Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides, the last four of which were made into feature films. Beach Music is about Jack McCall, an American living in Rome with his young daughter, trying to find peace after the recent trauma of his wife's suicide. But his solitude is disturbed by the appearance of his sister-in-law, who begs him to return home, and of two school friends asking for his help in tracking down another classmate who went underground as a Vietnam protester and never resurfaced. These requests launch Jack on a journey that encompasses the past and the present in both Europe and the American South, and that leads him to shocking - and ultimately liberating - truths. AnnotationThe story of a man whose wife's suicide leads him to dark family truths and the terror of the Holocaust. If You Enjoy "Beach Music (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Beach Music (Paperback)" by Pat Conroy (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Fiction & Literature Bestselling Books
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