Beach Music by Pat Conroy ( Abridged, Audio Cassette) Description    Additional Information about Beach Music by Pat Conroy (1996, Abridged, Audio Cassette) Portions of this page Copyright 1995 - 2009 Muze Inc. All rights reserved. Synopsis The story of a man whose wife's suicide leads him to dark family truths and the terror of the Holocaust. Details Edition Description: Abridged Size Height: 7.5 in. Width: 4.5 in. Thickness: 2.0 in. Weight: 14.4 oz. Publisher's Note The best-selling author of The Prince of Tides presents a lyrical, multi-generational saga featuring an American expatriate in Rome, who searches for a secret buried deep in his family's past. Reissue. Book available. Industry reviews "...when Conroy writes about the pleasures of eating boiled crab on tables covered with yesterday's newspaper, when he celebrates the low country's amphibious charms or confronts his mixed feelings about bubba culture, there are flashes of a gifted novelist." Time - R. Z. Sheppard (06/26/1995) "Rich in haunting imagery and seductive, suspenseful storytelling, a worthy successor to 'The Prince of Tides'." Vanity Fair - John Berendt  "'Beach Music' is a chaotic, often exasperating but completely lovable novel." Washington Post Book World - Brigitte Weeks (07/02/1995) "'Beach Music' is one of those delicious novels that has everything to make your weekend-with-a-book great: characters that stick to your ribs, dialogue that can crackle as sharply as twigs in a campfire. It has intelligence, it has heart. It is suffused with Conroy's regional sense, with the tragedy and loss that hang over the post-Civil War South like a miasma, causing it to spend too much of its substance on an impersonation of itself. Best, it has Conroy the storyteller at full throttle, as if he were pounding it out on two or three typewriters at the same time." Chicago Tribune Books - Judith Dunford (07/16/1995) "South Carolina overflows from his pages, sentimental and unforgiving, soft as sleepy pears and hard as turtle shells." San Francisco Review of Books - Kate Fitzsimmons  "...emotionally suspenseful....'Beach Music' is clearly his best yet." Murray  "'Beach Music' is blockbuster writing at its best. A whole passel of people are going to stay awake late this summer compulsively turning its 640 pages before they close it in satisfaction." Sheppard  . Payment Forms of Payment: We accept PayPal, Visa and MasterCardthrough Paypal. Tax: All in state residents will be charged state and local sales tax during the checkout process. The winning bidder can pay using the checkout button, or wait to receive an automated e-mail invoice shortly after the auction ends with totals and payment instructions. (Note: If you do not receive an e-mail invoice within 48 hours of the auction end, please check your bulk email folder, as a spam filter may have prevented it from reaching your primary in-box.) Prompt Payment: Checkout must be completed within 7 days of the close of auction, and all PayPal payments must be made within this time period. If payment isn't received within this time period, the order will be revoked and a Non-Paying Bidder alert will be filed. Shipping Our shipping fees are determined by the shipped weight of the item and shipping destination. I want your item to arrive promptly and safely. I use first-quality materials to pack items with care. Our preferred shipping carriers: For items over 2 lbs., I typically ship via UPS Ground. For items under 2 lbs. we typically ship via USPS Priority Mail. FedEx and UPS will not ship to P.O. Boxes. Merchandise will ship 3 - 5 business days after payment confirmation. Contact Us If the item was not as described in the auction and you would like to return the item, you must initiate the return within 3 days of receiving the item. To do this, contact us at [email protected]. Buyer will be responsible for return shipping charges