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SUMMARY: A depression-era boy wants badly to become a classical musician against the wishes of his hard drinking, heavy equipment operating father. His long-suffering mother wants him to escape the kind of life she’s had and supports his musical dream. He convinces himself that music is the most important thing in his life and marries the woman who has set her sights on him and is willing to support his musical obsession. Joey winds up in the symphony and performing in Hollywood, backing up the likes of Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison, The Beach Boys and Frank Sinatra. But he lets the love of his life, the high school beauty that he adored from the first encounter, slip away. Tears and Trombones is a roller coaster of highs and lows with humorous twists and poignant turns as we watch Joey pursue his dream.
The BookViral Review: Insightful and beautifully imagined, Tears And Trombones is the enchanting debut from author Nanci Woody that magically weaves eloquent prose with melodic musings. A bittersweet journey that is both timeless and transient in it’s telling, Woody succinctly captures aspects of humanity that ultimately define us. Hope, fear, love and regret, each has its place, with each exquisitely enshrined in the music that defined those moments in time. Intense, lyrical, and certainly evocative, it’s breathtakingly good at times with an inspired narrative through which she creates a rare sense of intimacy as she writes. Her characters imbued with a vibrancy that elevates them beyond their time and place, bringing them achingly to life, though no more than with Joey. Channelling his story through compressed and authentic dialogue, Woody ably captures the weight, triumphs and sadness of his choices and their long reaching ramifications in what proves to be an emotive roller-coaster of a journey.
A beautifully written, insightful and highly satisfying debut, Nanci Woody is an author who certainly deserves your attention and Tears and Trombones is recommended without reservation!
Few fantasy writers demonstrate Thomas’ narrative range and The Unifier packs in impressive world-building, superb characterization and original magical constructs in a novel little over 300 pages long as Thomas reminds us why the Sword and Sorcery Fantasy genre remains unerringly popular.
When people talk about setting up their own business, they often fear the prospect of recording financial transactions but Ryder takes away the fear and shows his readers that managing accounts needn’t be taxing.
When Jim meets Sophie, a fellow member of the liberation movement ‘The Underground’, his life begins to take on even more meaning. After a failed attempt at infiltrating the Elite leaders ends in tragedy, Jim turns to his scientific studies, specifically a porthole into other dimensions, to right the wrong.
An eye-opening look at creation versus evolution, ‘From Goo to God’ tracks many of the blindly accepted evolutionary theories, picking each apart to examine whether they deserve the widely established promotion throughout the whole educational experience of young people.
Kathleen. W . Franks has managed to capture; the kind that transports its young reader into the realms of their own imagination, complete with secret tunnels, magical creatures and a good old baddie or two!
Right from the off the mystery begins as Franks firmly hooks her readers with strong relatable characters and a gripping plot, with the shape of the novel growing and shifting naturally from her protagonist’s very first experience at his new home.
We are constantly and enduringly fascinated with fictional accounts of parallel existence, alternative realities and genetic engineering. Films such as ‘The Fountain’ present immortality as attainable, whilst books such as ‘The Book Thief’ (Markus Zusak) explore the nature of death, in this case by death himself acting as narrator.
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