Beach Music

Conroy, Pat

| 1994

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Pat Conroy is without doubt America's favorite storyteller, a writer who portrays the anguished truth of the human heart and the painful secrets of families in richly lyrical prose and unforgettable narratives. Now, in Beach Music, he tells of the dark memories that haunt generations, in a story that spans South Carolina and Rome and reaches back into the unutterable terrors of the Holocaust. Beach Music is about Jack McCall, an American living in Rome with his young daughter, 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 asking for his help in tracking down another classmate who went underground as a Vietnam protester and never resurfaced. These requests launch Jack on a journey that encompasses the past and the present in both Europe...

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Zack Simone

2016-10-10

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Knappast en diskret eller sublim läsupplevelse. Det drar åt Hemingway, Gulliou, Kjaerstad och de andra Männen. Det är bäst, vackrast, smartast, värstast och astast, men ändå mycket fint mitt i det storsvulna.

Linda Abramsson

2010-11-10

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Läste den på svenska; Strändernas musik.