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Title	:	The Song Is You
Author	:	Arthur Phillips
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 250 pages
Published	:	April 7th 2009 by Random House (first published January 1st 2009)
Categories	:	Fiction. Music. Contemporary. Romance. Novels. Literary Fiction. Unfinished

The Song Is You

Arthur Phillips

Hardcover | Pages: 250 pages

Rating: 3.26 | 1911 Users | 362 Reviews

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Julian Donahue is in love with his iPod.

Each song that shuffles through “that greatest of all human inventions†triggers a memory. There are songs for the girls from when he was single; there’s the one for the day he met his wife-to-be, and another for the day his son was born. But when his family falls apart, even music loses its hold on him, and he has nothing.

Until one snowy night in Brooklyn, when his life’s soundtrack–and life itself–starts to play again. He stumbles into a bar and sees Cait O’Dwyer, a flame-haired Irish rock singer, performing with her band, and a strange and unlikely love affair is ignited.

Over the next few months, Julian and Cait’s passion for music and each other is played out, though they never meet. In cryptic emails, text messages, cell-phone videos, and lyrics posted on Cait’s website, they find something in their bizarre friendship that they cannot find anywhere else. Cait’s star is on the rise, and Julian gently guides her along her path to fame–but always from a distance–and she responds to the one voice who understands her, more than a fan but still less than a lover.

As their feelings grow more feverish, keeping a safe distance becomes impossible. What follows is a love story and a uniquely heartbreaking dark comedy about obsession and loss.

Called “one of the best writers in America†by The Washington Post, the bestselling author of Prague delivers his finest work yet in The Song Is You. It is a closely observed tale of love in the digital age that blurs the line between the longing for intimacy and the longing for oblivion.

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Original Title:	The Song Is You
ISBN:	1400066468 (ISBN13: 9781400066469)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	St. Francis College Literary Prize Nominee (2009)

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Ratings: 3.26 From 1911 Users | 362 Reviews

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And I can't get it out of my head...This book is a ballad, a haunting ballad that continues to play its plaintive notes in my head, like a refrain. Don't be fooled by the product description (of a man in love with his ipod). This is not a jaunty, trendy escape tale. This is for serious readers who love literature, and who love literature to descant.Julian Donahue is middle-aged, affluent, and adrift. After his son's death, his marriage unravels, but he remains tightly wound. He has a successful

This book barely made it past the 50 page test, but I persevered, sure I would eventually like it. Then on page 101, this sentence appeared and I knew it was over:"Like an arrogant government minister forced by revolution into faraway exile where he can only find work as a cabdriver and who then assumes that all his fares despise him as completely as he would have despised immigrant cabdrivers in his home country back when he was a man of power, so it now was with the former lead singer of

I was intrigued by the premise of The Song Is You, the latest offering by Arthur Phillips, the bestselling author of Prague: the power of music, its ability to invoke emotion and bring to mind memories, both the good and the not so good.Julian Donahue is a 40-something director of commercials in Manhattan. Julian inherited his love for music from his father, who lost his leg in the Korean War. Before his deployment, he attended a Billie Holiday concert at the Galaxy Theater, where he met his

This isn't one I was instantly drawn to, and I was even a bit skeptical, but it turned out to be a case of something being on the shelf and eventually the time will be right. It's similar to Nick Hornby's Juliet, Naked in some ways, though Hornby's writing is breezier.But no, music lasted longer than anything it inspired. (p. 14)Great music, his father used to lecture him, was often made by wretched people. The wise fan carefully avoided learning anything about the creators of any music that

This is a gorgeously written, intelligently crafted, expertly disguised run-on sentence. It's a beautiful novel but it amounts to almost nothing. There's no compelling story here; just 250 pages of an obsessive, insufferable narrator talking in circles until he reconciles himself with reality.

I really wanted to like this book. There was so much potential. I absolutely loved the beginning ("Julian Donahue's generation were the pioneers of portable headphone music, and he began carrying with him everywhere the soundtrack to his days when he was fifteen."). Even though I am just beyond the main character's generation, I get the soundtrack to life thing - how to hear a song reminds you of some past time and it's hard to separate that memory from the song. Good songs can get ruined by

I wanted to like this book more than I did. I tried. When I found out it was a love story that included music and I-pod addiction - it grabbed my interest. I wanted to get into the love story and feel what the characters did, but I couldn't. I did connect with them through their music addiction, but that is about it. At first, I liked the idea of the mysterious love affair and how it started. Then it ended up getting to the point where it was downright creepy! (and honestly, it takes a lot to