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I haven't read Pat Conroy before but should have because we share a common background (teachers in unusual schools). I found the book to be a good read with lots action and the characters real. It was interesting that the Halocaust and the sixties mixed together to cause so much pain to the main character, Jack McCall. The loss of his wife and his search for understanding this loss is the thread through the entire story. His mother is a hoot with great grit and determination. Jack's brothers come across as believable showing what a close knit but volatile group is like. If you're around them it's kinda duck and cover time. I enjoyed it. Hope you do too.

I read all 628 pages in such a short time. It kept my interest throughout.
Some of the many stories were incredibly brutal & hard to take.

It would be interesting to read just a pure Conroy biography -- what
makes his family relationships so dark???

Just finished Beach Music. Is it the story of Shyla and Jack McCall? Can it be a tale of several friends and how the Viet Nam era affected their lives? Maybe it's about Leah and Jack McCall and their lives or about Lucy Pitts, Jack's mother. I believe that it's all of this. The book is an excellent read. The only loose end is what happened to Capers Middleton but the reader can probably figure that out and it may not matter because Jack and he are no longer really friends.