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From the cover . . . "In the summer of 1955, Madison Lee "Bobo" Murphy was a waiter at the Catskills' Pine Hill Inn. A rural Southerner, he had never heard the word meshugge until Avrum Feldman - a retired Nw York City furrier - became his unlikely friend. For Bobo, nothing about that special time and place ever lost its glow: Avrum's obsession with the haunting voice of a famous opera diva, music that no one else could hear; the exotic mingling of Yiddish and German in the dining room; the girl he met and loved.
. . . For a wealthy Jewish girl and a Georgia farm boy, the summer had to end, leaving bobo with the pain of loving someone and believing you cannot be with them. Nearly forty years later, his children grown and his marriage comfortably routine, Bobo comes north once more; there, admist the haunting hints of Amy's presence, she unexpedtedly appears. Nothing has dimmed the passion of their youth, yet two lifetimes and a thousand Catskills sunsets stand between who they were and who they have become. The strikes against them are different now. But mysteriously, miraculously, Bobo reawakens the dreams of a love larger than himself."
. . . For a wealthy Jewish girl and a Georgia farm boy, the summer had to end, leaving bobo with the pain of loving someone and believing you cannot be with them. Nearly forty years later, his children grown and his marriage comfortably routine, Bobo comes north once more; there, admist the haunting hints of Amy's presence, she unexpedtedly appears. Nothing has dimmed the passion of their youth, yet two lifetimes and a thousand Catskills sunsets stand between who they were and who they have become. The strikes against them are different now. But mysteriously, miraculously, Bobo reawakens the dreams of a love larger than himself."
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