Body and Soul by Frank Conroy
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.
Frank Conroy was born in 1936 and received his bachelor's degree in 1958 from Haverford College. He is currently the director of the famed Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa, where he teaches. Stop-Time, Conroy's autobiography, was published in 1967, and Midair, his collection of short stories, was published in 1985. The New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, Harper's Magazine, and Partisan Review have all published his writing. He spends time in both Iowa City and Nantucket.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385319867 |
| ISBN 10 | 038531986X |
| Title | Body and Soul |
| Author | Frank Conroy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1998-06-08 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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