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The Song Is You (Random House)
We're thrilled to have Arthur Phillips here to read from and sign the new-in-paperback novel The Song Is You, one of our Staff Favorites from 2009!
“One of the best writers in America.”—Washington Post Book World
“Enthralling . . . brilliant . . . triumphant.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
Arthur Phillips is the internationally bestselling author of The Song is You, The Egyptologist, and Prague, which was a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. He lives in New York with his wife and two sons.
Julian Donahue is in love with his iPod. Each song on Julian's iPod, "that greatest of all human
inventions," is a touchstone. There are songs for the girls from when he was
single, there's the one for the day he met his wife-to-be, there's one for the
day his son was born. But when Julian's family falls apart, even music loses its
hold on him. Until one snowy night in Brooklyn, when his life's soundtrack--and life itself--start to play again. Julian stumbles into a bar and
sees Cait O'Dwyer, a flame-haired Irish rock singer, performing with her band,
and a strange and unlikely love affair is ignited. Over the next few months,
Julian and Cait's passion plays out, though they never meet. What follows is a
heartbreaking dark comedy, the tenderest of love stories, and a perfectly
observed tale of the way we live now.