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| Author | Pat Conroy |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Nan A. Talese |
| Publication date | July 1995 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 640 p. (hardback edition) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-385-41304-1 (hardback edition) |
Beach Music is Pat Conroy's novel of Jack McCall, a South Carolina native who flees the South with his daughter, Leah, after his wife commits suicide. This novel explores the Vietnam War-era, the Holocaust, and coming of age in the twentieth century. Published in 1995.
Plot introduction
Jack McCall, an American living in Rome with his young daughter, is trying to find peace after the recent trauma of his wife's suicide. But his search for solitude is disturbed by his sister-in-law, and by two schoolfriends who want his help in tracking down another classmate who went underground as a Vietnam protestor and never resurfaced. As Jack begins a journey that encompasses the past and the present in both Europe and the American South, he also begins a quest that will lead him to shocking truths.
