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  • This books barely gets marks above regretful. If you are looking for a book that is going to ramble on about every event in history from Vietnam to the Holocaust, while trying to include stories about the environment, family and Republican bashing (but failing completely) then you should read this ... Continue

    This books barely gets marks above regretful. If you are looking for a book that is going to ramble on about every event in history from Vietnam to the Holocaust, while trying to include stories about the environment, family and Republican bashing (but failing completely) then you should read this book.

    If you like a book with a point and believable characters, skip this one.

    The writing was not completely horrible, saving it from 1 star. Except for that every character sounded almost completely the same, including the young girl in the story. Yay.

    I wanted to finish it so badly because I kept thinking there would be a point which would be revealed at the end, but unless the only point was to mock Republicans for stereotypes, then I totally missed it. Boring with a capital B.

    

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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 liberating truths. Told with deep feeling and the unmistakable brand of Conroy humor, this powerful novel adds another masterpiece to the legendary list of classics that his body of works has become.