Beach Music

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The long-awaited new novel by the author of the bestselling The Prince of Tides. With the spectacular worldwide success of his unforgettable novel The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy established himself as a major international writer. He is known for his anguished and painfully honest insights into families and the human heart. He now returns with Beach Music, a story which tells of a family haunted by dark memories that reach back into the unutterable terrors of the Holocaust. Jack McCall, an American living in Rome with his young daughter, is 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, who want his help in tracking down another classmate who went underground as a Vietman 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- a quest that leads him to shocking and ultimately liberating truths.

Reviews

'Conroy has a passion for words and story, a way of making the reader trust his revelations, and an icily observant eye' * Daily Telegraph *
'Conroy is at his absolute best...a master storyteller' * The Times *
'Rich in haunting imagery and seductive, suspenseful storytelling' * Vanity Fair *
'A thumping good read, superior in its lyricism and wisdom to everything else in the popular genre' * Sunday Express *

Author Bio

Pat Conroy is the author of six books- The Boo, The Water is Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides and Beach Music.