From the author of I Was Amelia Earhart, a luminous love story that winds through several generations - told in Jane Mendelsohn's distinctive, mesmerizing style.
At its center: Milo, a severely wounded veteran of the Iraq war confined to a rehabilitation hospital, and Honor, his physical therapist. When Honor touches Milo's destroyed back, mysterious images from the past appear to each of them, puzzling her and shaking him to the core.
As Milo's treatment progresses, the images begin to weave together in an intricate, mysterious tapestry of stories. There are Joe and Pearl, a husband and wife in the 1930s, whose marriage is tested by Pearl's bewitching artistic cousin, Vivian. There is the heartrending story of a woman photographer in the 1960s and the shocking theft of her life's work. And the story of a man and woman in seventeenth-century Turkey - a eunuch and a sultan's concubine - whose forbidden love is captured in music. The stories converge in a symphonic crescendo that reveals the far-flung origins of America's endlessly romantic soul and exposes the source of Honor and Milo's own love.
A beautiful mystery and a meditation on love - its power and limitations - American Music is a brilliantly original novel.
At its center: Milo, a severely wounded veteran of the Iraq war confined to a rehabilitation hospital, and Honor, his physical therapist. When Honor touches Milo's destroyed back, mysterious images from the past appear to each of them, puzzling her and shaking him to the core.
As Milo's treatment progresses, the images begin to weave together in an intricate, mysterious tapestry of stories. There are Joe and Pearl, a husband and wife in the 1930s, whose marriage is tested by Pearl's bewitching artistic cousin, Vivian. There is the heartrending story of a woman photographer in the 1960s and the shocking theft of her life's work. And the story of a man and woman in seventeenth-century Turkey - a eunuch and a sultan's concubine - whose forbidden love is captured in music. The stories converge in a symphonic crescendo that reveals the far-flung origins of America's endlessly romantic soul and exposes the source of Honor and Milo's own love.
A beautiful mystery and a meditation on love - its power and limitations - American Music is a brilliantly original novel.
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Hardback Editions
June 2010 : Hardback
| Title: American Music Author(s): Jane Mendelsohn ISBN: 0-307-27266-4 / 978-0-307-27266-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Knopf Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
June 2011 : Paperback
| Title: American Music (Vintage Contemporaries) Author(s): Jane Mendelsohn ISBN: 0-307-47397-X / 978-0-307-47397-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Vintage Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Audio Editions
June 2010 : Audio CD
| Title: American Music Author(s): Jane Mendelsohn ISBN: 1-4417-5522-5 / 978-1-4417-5522-3 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
June 2010 : MP3 CD
| Title: American Music Author(s): Jane Mendelsohn ISBN: 1-4417-5523-3 / 978-1-4417-5523-0 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
January 2012 : Kindle edition
| Title: American music (Littérature Etrangère) (French Edition) Author(s): Jane Mendelsohn Publisher: Calmann-Lévy Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
2011 : Unknown
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September 2010 : Unknown
| Title: American Music (Playaway Adult Fiction) Author(s): Jane Mendelsohn ISBN: 1-4417-5526-8 / 978-1-4417-5526-1 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
June 2010 : Unknown
| Title: American Music: A Novel (Unabridged) Author(s): Jane Mendelsohn Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
May 2010 : Kindle edition
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