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Summary: Life imitates art, imitates life.
Review: A beautifully written novel of young love revisited. Terry Kay is a gifted writer, with an uncanny ability to deliver this remarkable tale right to your heart. Bobo and Amy...I feel like I know them personally.
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Summary: Life imitates art, imitates life.
Review: A beautifully written novel of young love revisited. Terry Kay is a gifted writer, with an uncanny ability to deliver this remarkable tale right to your heart. Bobo and Amy...I feel like I know them personally.
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Summary: Great book -even for non-native speakers.
Review: For a non-native English speaker, it is quite difficult to find an English-written book able to have your heart and soul working at top speed. "Shadow Song" is one of them. Its message gets deep inside of you since the very first pages, and makes you follow the story of the protagonist's search of his own truth --his way back home. It is an accurate description of people's need to face their destiny no matter what. "Shadow Song" is not only a story of love and friendship; it is a story that shows that happiness is a matter of taking the chance.
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Summary: A Keeper
Review: I read the hardback AFTER I heard this book on tape. I played it in the car on a 200 mile trip and was so enamoured of it that I checked it out of my local library again, a month later. I have listened to it at least half a dozen times and never seem to tire of it. I am now considering purchasing my own copy, something I have never done with any book on tape! The story is simply beautiful and I identified with much of it.
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Summary: A Keeper
Review: I read the hardback AFTER I heard this book on tape. I played it in the car on a 200 mile trip and was so enamoured of it that I checked it out of my local library again, a month later. I have listened to it at least half a dozen times and never seem to tire of it. I am now considering purchasing my own copy, something I have never done with any book on tape! The story is simply beautiful and I identified with much of it.
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Summary: Southern artist, Bobo, reunites with former love.
Review: I read this book based on the five star reviewsfound at this web site. I feel compelled to write and add my thoughts. Kay's writing left me puzzled that such a book would even find a publisher; I found it trite, repetive (how many times do we have to hear about Avrum and his opera singer?) and an insult to the average reader's intelligence. His use of language was simplistic; my thirteen year old can construct better sentences. I do not recommend this book.
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Summary: Loving and beautiful story about love
Review: I really enjoyed the book, at first it was a little confusing and hard to understand, but as the pages started turning I fell in love with the book. The whole idea that Bobo and Amy Lourie met and fell in love in the Catskills with so many things against them intrigues me. His friendship with Avrum was weird but made the story more interesting. My favorite part of the book was when Amy and Bobo meet each other 40 years later and still are in love. This is my 1st Terry Kay book and I loved it, I hope to read another one of his books soon.
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Summary: Beautifully told story
Review: I started reading this book in small chunks but the pace accelerated as I went on. Towards the middle, I could not let go of the book. The storytelling is superb. I especially liked the dual tracks separated 38 years apart. Dealing with the subject of true love and adultery is mature and quite intriguing.
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Summary: Romantic novel rises above nostalgia
Review: I was initially drawn to this book because it takes place in a region close to my own, the Catskills of upstate New York. Indeed, location plays a large role in this compelling story of love lost and possibly found many years later. Terry Kay's atmospheric novel evokes the lush scenery of this area and also the bygone days of thriving Jewish resorts. Shadow Song is about the very long (in time as well as space) journey of Bobo Murphy from the deep South to an upstate New York resort, where he falls in love with a beautiful but inaccessible Jewish girl named Amy Lourie. He also befriends an eccentric but wise older man named Avrum. These elements would probably not make a good film --the subtlety of the prose would be lost and all that would remain would be mushy sentimentality. This is, to be sure, a nostalgic and sentimental love story. Yet the novel manages to work anyway, most likely because the author really believes in his characters and their emotions. Nostalgia, after all, can be a part of real life. Shadow Song dives directly into this theme without flinching and makes us believe in it and care about the characters.
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Summary: Finally, a grown-up book about love
Review: I won't repeat what everyone else said who liked this book - but would just add that I liked the measured pace that allowed the story to fully explore all its elements. I didn't find it repetitive - rather, there was musicality in the way motifs were revisited throughout the story. Finally, as nobody seems to be mentioning the "a" word - adultery - is this the last taboo, that people haven't come out of the closet about? - it was a joy to read a book with a mature and realistic outlook on that subject. It's about time! Similarly, religion. I wish I could find more books like this that reflect and illuminate the world I really live in.
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