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Claude Rawlings, a poverty-stricken young man, feels stymied by life, until he finds an old piano and embarks on a musical odyssey that takes him into a world of wealth, power, and fame. By the author of Stop-Time. 75,000 first printing. Tour.
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In the dim light of a basement apartment, six-year-old Claude Rawlings sits at an old white piano, picking out the sounds he has heard on the radio and shutting out the reality of his lonely world.
The setting is 1940s New York, a city that is "long gone, replaced by another city of the same name." Against a backdrop that pulses with sound and rhythm, "Body & Soul brilliantly evokes the life of a child prodigy whose musical genius pulls him out of squalor and into the drawing rooms of the rich and a gilt-edged marriage.
But the same talent that transforms him also hurtles Claude into a lonely world of obsession and relentless ambition. From Carnegie Hall to the smoky jazz clubs of London, "Body & Soul burns with passion and truth--at once a riveting, compulsive read and a breathtaking glimpse into a boy's heart and an artist's soul.
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“Beautifully written, and hypnotically readable...the best story I know of in a long, long time.”
--Vanity Fair
“Full of enchantment...a precise conjuring of an exceptional child’s perceptions and feelings.”
--Entertainment Weekly
“A big, old-fashioned book as satisfying as a fine evening at the symphony.”
--Dallas Morning News
“A literary event...a grand saga...Body & Soul was written under the spell of Dickens, not to mention Stendhal, Tolstoy and the other 19th century titans...Conroy bedazzles readers!
--Chicago Tribune
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin Company
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0395519462
- ISBN 13 9780395519462
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages450
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