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Written by Pat Conroy - Audio book performed by Peter MacNicol - Abridged Fiction - 6 CASSETTES

Publisher, Bantam Doubleday Dell (1995)

Michele Ross, The Christian Science Monitor (Eastern edition) says:

"Beach Music, Pat Conroy's magnificent, long-awaited new novel (his last, The Prince of Tides, was published in 1986), is an absolute attic of a book. It's overstuffed. Seemingly every memory, character, place, and event from not only Conroy's life, but from the lives of most of the people he's ever met are in it. And as in a proper attic, you wander through Beach Music dazed and fascinated by the odd, clashing richness of the several lifestyles it contains. . . . Beach Music is a professional and very personal triumph for Pat Conroy, who unashamedly pours his troubled life into his work. It is Conroy's great gift as a writer, and perhaps his salvation as a man, that his battles and his books end not with bitterness or defeat, but in the shining, healing light of hope and forgiveness."

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 asking for 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.