Taking the Heat - Hardcover

Zukerman, Eugenia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671708740 ISBN 13: 9780671708740

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1991

Synopsis

Having put aside her career as a flutist for marriage and motherhood, Nora Watermann finds her marriage destroyed by her impulsive fling with another man and by the tragic death of her son and sets out to reclaim her life through her music

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Although she gets out of the kitchen, Nora Watterman still takes the heat in this absorbing drama of passion, love, loss and redemption. Abandoning a promising career as a flutist at age 19, Nora married TV news producer Ben Watterman and soon delivered their son Nicky. Nearly 20 years later, seemingly content with her life as housewife in a New York suburb, Nora, who plays the flute with amateur groups, falls into a precipitous affair, which she ends when Ben finds out. Her attempts to repair their marriage explode with Nicky's sudden death; devastated, she goes to live with her father in an Arizona retirement village where she hears tantalizing secrets about her mother--dead since Nora was 10--who survived Auschwitz as a child. Seizing a chance to play with an orchestra in Poland, Nora confronts anti-Semitism for the first time, has a healing encounter with a young man, learns more about her mother and returns home nearly emotionally restored to a surprise that offers promise of further growth. A flutist herself, Zukerman ( Deception Cadence ) plays the melody of her tale (particularly the love scenes) with a light, sure touch, at the same time masterfully orchestrating her well-placed plot, its credible, feeling characters and authentic settings from New York to Arizona to Cracow.
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The author's second novel is a moving story of redemption through music. Nora and Bernie Watterman, whose marriage crumbles after their son's tragic death, must deal separately with grief, guilt, and recovery. Seeking to retrace her Polish roots and understand her mother, a Holocaust victim, Nora joins a Polish orchestra as temporary first flutist. She grows both emotionally and musically from this valuable experience and is finally able to cope with the loss of her family. The author, also a noted flutist and married to violinist Pinchas Zuckerman, knows the healing power of music and here communicates it with exquisite simplicity. Highly recommended.
- Ellen R. Cohen, Rockville, Md.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671708740
• ISBN 13: 9780671708740
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 301