First edition, first printing (with full number line down to the 1). Hardbound. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A tight, clean copy, new and unread. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. NOT price clipped. Shipped in well padded box. Novel, a Dickensian story of a young man whose life is transformed by a gift--his precocious talent on the piano. The story follows his poor and lonely childhood to private schools, a gilt-edge marriage and Carnegie Hall. 450 pages.

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Title: Body and Soul (First Edition)
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Publication Date: 1993
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0395519462
ISBN 13: 9780395519462
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Claude Rawlings, a poverty-stricken young man, feels stymied by life, until he finds an old piano and embarks on a musical odyssey that takes him into a world of wealth, power, and fame. By the author of Stop-Time. 75,000 first printing. Tour.

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"Beautifully written, and hypnotically readable...the best story I know of in a long, long time."
--Vanity Fair
"Full of enchantment...a precise conjuring of an exceptional child's perceptions and feelings."
--Entertainment Weekly
"A big, old-fashioned book as satisfying as a fine evening at the symphony."
--Dallas Morning News
"A literary event...a grand saga...Body & Soul was written under the spell of Dickens, not to mention Stendhal, Tolstoy and the other 19th century titans...Conroy bedazzles readers!
--Chicago Tribune

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