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Bestselling author Sally Mandel writes vibrant novels peopled with richly-drawn characters whose lives move readers to both laughter and tears. Now she has created a remarkable story about the profound risks that are taken in the pursuit of a dream.
For pianist Bess Stallone, a self-taught musical prodigy from the tough side of Long Island, getting into Julliard was a minor miracle. It just wasn’t the kind of school girls from her blue-collar neighborhood attended. In fact, the only thing Bess had in common with the other Julliard students was her singular passion for classical music, which she could play magnificently. Except in front of an audience. From her first disastrous recital, Bess knew that she would never be good enough for the stage, as her bitter father had been telling her for years. But one willful, determined teacher would change everything.
Renowned virtuoso David Montagnier has already captivated the world. Now he needs a new partner for his two-piano repertoire, someone to breathe fresh excitement into his work. Drawn to her wild talent, David challenges Bess, seducing her with music and offering her a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get out of Rocky Beach. As David leads her from their first terrifying performance in a Harlem church to standing ovations at Carnegie Hall, Bess allows herself to surrender to the joys of life, and to believe in love.
Then the romance crumbles. For David’s brilliance masks the wounds of a tortured genius that may never heal. Forsaken, Bess must make a fateful journey of her own–to search once again for the music missing from her heart.
Resonating with wit, warmth, and profound insight, Heart and Soul is a triumph of emotion, a flawless symphony of realism and romance that celebrates life, love, perseverance, and an enduring passion for music.
- Sales Rank: #5520772 in Books
- Published on: 2002-04-16
- Released on: 2002-04-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.52" h x 1.04" w x 6.39" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 288 pages
From Publishers Weekly
As in her deservedly popular Out of the Blue, Mandel here displays her talent for establishing a strong female lead in an appealing milieu with an equally intriguing love interest. Frank-talking Long Island native Bess Stallone ("no relation") is a gifted pianist, fascinated and formed by music from an early age, but in every other way an unlikely virtuoso. With her difficult family life, wrong-side-of-island provenance and paralyzing stage fright, she's the perfect narrator to spin out Mandel's trademark self-deprecating humor. Bess has gotten into Juilliard and attracted the attention of the brilliant and renowned pianist David Montagnier, who wants her to be his partner at first on stage, and later in the bedroom. In a series of skillful scenes, Mandel takes Bess from down and out to what seems like the life of her dreams. But David, however potentially compelling as a character, remains a gorgeous cipher until the end, while good guy Jake, Bess's high school buddy, is telegraphed too clearly as being the one Bess is destined to be with. Mandel could have written a much deeper book, since both David's past with his tragic mother, Aimee, and Bess's history with Jake would have added weight and balance. The strong supporting characters and an ending that almost satisfies wrap up a package that leaves the reader wanting more. National radio ads; print ads in Romantic Times; New York media and bookstore appearances.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Bess Stallone, a potty-mouthed, big-haired, tough Long Island girl, has a big problem. She's a piano-playing prodigy who vomits or faints whenever she performs for an audience. Deciding to give up, she worries that she'll have to wait tables forever until the gorgeous, rich, and famous virtuoso David Montagnier picks her to be his new partner for his two-piano repertoire. Her extreme sexual attraction to him, as well as his ability to groom her for stage appearances, leads to success and romance until his maniacal dark side manifests. Classical music permeates the story; at one point Bess, who fame turns into a "classical-piano version of Jennifer Beals in Flashdance," says, "I guess music is a kind of sickness, like nymphomania." Although Bess talks like Stephanie Plum and David is just too glamorous for words, they are fully dimensional characters, and although on the surface this looks like a happily ever after Cinderella-type tale, Mandel turns it into a compelling drama of phobias and mental illness. Diana Tixier Herald
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Bestselling author Sally Mandel writes vibrant novels peopled with richly-drawn characters whose lives move readers to both laughter and tears. Now she has created a remarkable story about the profound risks that are taken in the pursuit of a dream.
For pianist Bess Stallone, a self-taught musical prodigy from the tough side of Long Island, getting into Julliard was a minor miracle. It just wasn?t the kind of school girls from her blue-collar neighborhood attended. In fact, the only thing Bess had in common with the other Julliard students was her singular passion for classical music, which she could play magnificently. Except in front of an audience. From her first disastrous recital, Bess knew that she would never be good enough for the stage, as her bitter father had been telling her for years. But one willful, determined teacher would change everything.
Renowned virtuoso David Montagnier has already captivated the world. Now he needs a new partner for his two-piano repertoire, someone to breathe fresh excitement into his work. Drawn to her wild talent, David challenges Bess, seducing her with music and offering her a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get out of Rocky Beach. As David leads her from their first terrifying performance in a Harlem church to standing ovations at Carnegie Hall, Bess allows herself to surrender to the joys of life, and to believe in love.
Then the romance crumbles. For David?s brilliance masks the wounds of a tortured genius that may never heal. Forsaken, Bess must make a fateful journey of her own?to search once again for the music missing from her heart.
Resonating with wit, warmth, and profound insight, Heart and Soul is a triumph of emotion, a flawless symphony of realism and romance that celebrates life, love, perseverance, and an enduring passion for music.
Most helpful customer reviews
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
A good read
By ReviewMama
I love this book. I had it in hardcover years ago but since lost it. I've read this book at least 6 or 7 times. As someone that a. loves a good romance and b. plays piano herself, I adored this book. It's funny, uplifting, heartbreaking, and tearjerking all throughout the book. I love it. A good read if you're looking for a quirky romance read but beware, it's a little sad.
I do test these products out myself and give a very honest review. I am one that reads the reviews carefully when making purchases so I appreciate those who take the time to post reviews! If my review has been helpful to you, please give me a "Yes" vote on my review!
0 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
All too convenient
By A Customer
Although the vast majority of the books I read are fiction, I also love reading about pianos and pianists. I was delighted to discover this book, which at least purported to be a novel about pianists. Alas, it was not really about piano playing at all. Instead, it was a rather trivial novel about a set of relationships some of which happened to involve piano playing. A novel that really focused on the talent of the heroine would have had to provide more of a basis for her excellence; instead, she emerges as a brilliant pianist almost from nowhere. There is no sense of the sweat and tears of learning to play piano at that level. The only inkling of the scope of the heroine's endeavor comes when we find out that the heroine suffers from intractable stage fright, a fright she overcomes with surprising ease when the perfect partner discovers her.
The romance aspects of this novel are also weak, as is the sense of the passing of time (almost none seems to pass). Solutions to problems--such as the long-term care needs of the father--leap out of the woodwork. Everything comes much too easily to the heroine, including her discovery of the love of her life waiting in the wings (where he has been for 22 years) when her piano partnership ends. Her traumas do not last long, and are all easily resolved, whether by a sudden and surprising injection of money, friendship or love.
Life is just not this easy, and a novel in which it is this easy almost inevitably lacks a sufficient sense of drama to be successful. This novel is no exception.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Another Great Love Story
By Jeanne Anderson
I'm a sucker for a love story. Heart and Soul is just that and it is not a sappy one either. It is about Bess Stallone, a tough Long Island girl who just happens to be a gifted pianoist. She talks with a foul mouth, has a very good sense of humor, you can't help but like her.
David is a virtuoso known throughout the world. He is handsome and very famous, in need of a new partner at the piano. The long and short of the story is that he picks Bess and works with her as they become a pair on stage and off. She is so much in love with him and he her.
It is a story told before of course, girl from the wrong side of the tracks hooks up with the pretty boy. Same old story but this one really will grab you and touch you and also make you laugh. David is a tortured soul who ultimately caves in and falls apart as does their relationship. There are such tender moments though in this story.
Of course there is also Jake, her forever friend and the one who has always loved her since 7th grade and will be there for her at the end when she needs him.
I loved it. If you are looking for a good love story this is for you.
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