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Title	:	Body and Soul
Author	:	Frank Conroy
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 464 pages
Published	:	June 8th 1998 by Delta (first published January 1st 1993)
Categories	:	Fiction. Music. Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Coming Of Age. Literary Fiction

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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.

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Original Title:	Body and Soul
ISBN:	038531986X (ISBN13: 9780385319867)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	New York State(United States)

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I guess I can't get enough of beautifully written bildungsromans. I loved the journey this book took me on. It's an old fashioned great read, a big novel with quirky characters, requisite (and wonderful) coincidences, and a sweep of decades. It's a book that takes you through one person's life--a creative genius, a musician. Anyone with a creative fire will appreciate the inner workings of the protagonist's mind.Favorite quotes:"It was nothing less than the infinite story of life, and he

This book was a new direction for me. I had never heard of it, but was intrigued when one of my daughters suggested it for our January selection. It took me longer than usual to read it, (its 447 pages!) but it was good. I cant really say that I loved it, but it was good. It is the post-WW II story of Claude Rawlings, a neglected little boy who is locked into his basement apartment while his mom drives a cab all day. The room he sleeps in has an old piano, so he begins playing around with the

This book remains one of my favorite books. Conroy's ability to describe childhood is dead on, his descriptions of period New York City bring it to life, and the book has a reputation as being one of the finest descriptions of what it is like to be a musician.I love very nearly everything about the book. Even after reading it many times, I still have to pause and put it down periodically after a particular phrase or passage strikes me.If the book has a weakness for me, it is in Conroy's

This was last months #mahangirlsbookclub book, and I just finally finished it today. It was crazy slow. Technical. Musical. Sad. Amazing. Fascinating. I needed to finish it, but it really was one I needed to read and take a break and read and take a break. Lets be clear. The story is really cool. Honestly. It is. The writing is great. Setting. Characters. Loved them all. But, this is not some exciting story filled with twists and turns and action. It is a story of talent. Molded. Breaks given. A

Body & Soul was a rags-to-riches tale, set in the 1940s New York. The protagonist, a gifted piano player, rises to fame starting from an out-of-tune piano in his alcoholic mother's apartment, works his way through several piano teachers (sexually ambiguous, fat and brilliant, a gentle but haunted Jewish man)a socially profitable but unhappy marriage, and finally to his destiny. He was pronounced "changed forever" many times throughout. I thought Conroy did a great job invoking New York in

"Body and Soul" is the first novel I've read that deftly and eloquently captures music on the page. Not just what it's like to listen to music -- although of course that's in there too -- but what it's like to be inside the music, learning to play it, playing it, mastering it, composing it. Conroy follows Claude Rawlings from young autodidact to superstar piano soloist and budding composer, and along the way draws a beautiful, gritty portrait of New York City in the 40s, London in the 60's and

This is a beautifully written and researched book, containing detailed descriptions of what goes on in the mind of a musical prodigy as he learns, thinks about, responds to, or plays music. It is also a coming-of-age story, telling about the life of Claude Rawlings from the time he is a very small boy until he is an established adult talent. I found the book very engrossing and gorgeous in detail and desciption. I can't wait to give it to my daughter, who is a pianist also. Highly recommended.