Title : Body and Soul - Frank Conroy - book

Summary :

In New York in the 1940s, a child watches, through the bars of the basement window where he is locked, the shoes of passersby walking on the sidewalk. Poor, with no protection other than that of an eccentric mother, Claude Rawlings seems destined to remain a spectator of an inaccessible world. But in the back room, buried under a mountain of old papers, lies a small, out-of-tune piano. By deciphering the secrets of its keyboard, Claude, as if by magic, will discover himself: he is a musician. This book is the story of a man whose life is transfigured by a gift. His journey, at the end of a road marked by a thousand encounters, friendships, and romantic loves, will take him to the salons of the rich and powerful, and all the way to Carnegie Hall... Music, of course, is at the center of the book - classical music, serious and moral, but also jazz whose very contemporary rhythm makes its irresistible pulse heard from one end of the novel to the other. Around it, in a vast Dickensian fresco, teeming with characters, Frank Conroy paints a fascinating, funny, picturesque and sometimes cruel picture of a New York in full mutation.

• EAN : 9782070314393
  
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