Body & Soul

✍ Scribed by Conroy, Frank

• Book ID: 108110780
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 282 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0395519462

✦ Synopsis

As a boy, Claude Rawlings looks up through the grated window of his basement apartment to watch the world go by. Poor, lonely, supported by a taxi-driver mother whose eccentricities spin more and more out of control, he faces the terrible task of growing up on the margins of life, destined to be a spectator of that great world always hurrying out of reach. But there is an out-of-tune piano in the small apartment, and in unlocking the secrets of its keys, as if by magic, Claude discovers himself. He is a musical prodigy. _Body & Soul _is the story of a young man whose life is transformed by a gift. The gift is not without price -- the work is relentless, the teachers exacting -- but the reward is a journey that takes him to the drawing rooms of the rich and powerful, private schools, a gilt-edged marriage, and Carnegie Hall. Claude moves through this life as if he were playing a difficult composition, swept up in its drama and tension, surprised by its grace...