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American Music Book
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From the author of I Was Amelia Earhart, a luminous love story that winds through several generationsâ??told in Jane Mendelsohnâ??s distinctive mesmerizing style.
At its center are Milo, a severely wounded veteran of the Iraq War confined to a rehabilitation hospital, and Honor, his physical therapist, a former dancer. When Honor touches Miloâ??s destroyed back, mysterious images from the past appear to each of them, puzzling her and shaking him to the core.
As Miloâ??s treatment progresses, the images begin to weave together into an intricate, mysterious tapestry of stories. There are Joe and Pearl, a husband and wife in the 1930s whose marriage is tested by Pearlâ??s bewitching artistic cousin, Vivian. There is the heartrending story of a woman photographer in the 1960s and the shocking theft of her lifeâ??s work. The picaresque life of a woman who has a child too young and finds herself always on the move from job to job and man to man. And the story of a man and a woman in seventeenth-century Turkeyâ??a eunuch and a sultanâ??s concubineâ??whose forbidden love is captured in music. The stories converge in a symphonic crescendo that reveals the far-flung origins of Americaâ??s endlessly romantic soul and exposes the source of Honor and Miloâ??s own love.
A beautiful mystery and a meditation on loveâ??its power and its limitationsâ??American Music is a brilliantly original novel.
- 0307272664
- 9780307272669
- Jane Mendelsohn
- 1 June 2010
- Knopf Publishing Group
- Hardcover (Book)
- 256
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