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Publisher: Random House Audio
Book Type: Audio Cassette
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ISBN-13: 9780553472707 - ISBN-10: 0553472704
Publication Date: 7/1/1995


Other Versions of this Book: Hardcover, Hardcover, Paperback, Paperback, Audio CD, Audio Cassette

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No outer box. Each cassette is in a plastic “Beach Music” plastic case.
With the spectacular success of the unforgettable Prince Of Tides, Pat Conroy established himself as America's favorite storyteller, a writer whose anguished and painfully honest insights into families and the human heart emerge in richly lyrical prose and compulsively readable narratives. Now, in Beach Music, he tells of the dark memories that haunt families 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, who want 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 and the American South and that leads him to shocking and ultimately Eberating truths. Told with deep feeling and the unmistakable brand of Conroy humor, this powerful tale adds another masterpiece to the legendary list of classics that his body of works has become.

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Please Rate these Book Reviews

Chris S. wrote on 6/27/2009...


I'm fairly new to Pat Conroy's writing -- but I'm hooked. The phrasing, the ideas, the word pictures -- I was listening to a master tell a story.

(mariahjane) wrote on 7/4/2008...


540 minutes, abridged, 6 cassettes, read by Peter MacNicol

Kathy J. wrote on 10/7/2006...


I love Beach Music and will look for other books by the author. If you grew up in the 60's, Viet Nam era, you will relate to this story.

Joan L. wrote on 6/26/2006...


From the author of Prince of Tides - great story for traveling - enjoyed very much

Teresa H. wrote on 6/9/2006...


This audio book was given to me, and I have not had a chance to listen to it.


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