Body and Soul (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Frank Conroy
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: From 1945 to the 1970’s
- Setting: Mainly New York City
- Principal Characters: Claude Rawungs, Emma, Al, Weisfeld, Fredericks, Aldo Frescobaldi, Ivan Anderson, Priscilla (Lady) Powers, Catherine Marsh, Lord Lightning
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Social action, Love or romance, Music or musicians, Divorce, Liberalism, Jazz music, Pianos or pianists
- Locales: New York, NY
Frank Conroy’s first novel, published in his fifty- seventh year, harks back to a distinguished tradition in fiction: the “life” novel, the story of passage, the experience of a spiritual education. Body and Soul is an expansive novel that reconnects serious fiction to the Victorian chronicler of the painful but ultimately rewarding growing-up of David Copperfield, to the later breaking out of soul’s prison of Philip Carey in W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage (1915) and Paul Morel in D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers (1913), down to the struggles to...
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