Shadow Song: A Novel - Softcover

Kay, Terry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671892606 ISBN 13: 9780671892609

Publisher: Atria Books, 1995

Synopsis

In the summer of 1955, Madison Lee "Bobo" Murphy was a waiter at the Catskills' Pine Hill Inn. A rural Southerner, he had never heard the word meshugge until Avrum Feldman -- a retired New York City furrier -- became his unlikely friend. For Bobo, nothing about that special time and place ever lost its glow: Avrum's obsession with the haunting voice of a famous opera diva, music that no one else could hear; the exotic mingling of Yiddish and German in the dining room; and the girl he met and loved.
In everyone's life, Avrum claimed, there is one grand, undeniable moment that never stops mattering. For Bobo, it was his first glimpse of beautiful Amy Lourie. But, for a wealthy Jewish girl and a Georgia farm boy, the summer had to end, leaving Bobo with the pain of lost love. Nearly forty years later, his children grown and marriage comfortably routine, Bobo comes north once more; there, amidst the haunting hints of Amy's presence, she unexpectedly appears. Nothing has dimmed the passion of their youth, yet two lifetimes and a thousand Catskills sunsets stand between who they were and who they have become. The barriers between them are different now. But mysteriously, miraculously, Bobo reawakens the dream of a love larger than himself....

About this title

About the Author

Terry Kay's novels include Taking Lottie Home, The Runaway, Shadow Song, and the now-classic To Dance with the White Dog, twice nominated for the American Booksellers Book of the Year Award, and winner of the Southeastern Library Association Book of the Year Award. Terry Kay has been married for 44 years and has four children and seven grandchildren. He lives in Athens, Georgia.

From AudioFile

In 1955, while waiting tables in a Catskill resort, "Bobo" Murphy, a Georgia farm boy, falls in love with Amy, a wealthy Jewish girl. He also becomes friends with the eccentric Avrum Feldman, whose death thirty-eight years later gives Bobo a chance to revisit his love with Amy. Read by the author with simplicity and emotion, the story develops with beauty and honesty. The listener will be swept into the reading. E.L.C. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Atria Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0671892606
• ISBN 13: 9780671892609
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 388