ARTHUR PHILLIPS / The Song is You

March 30, 2010 - 7:30pm

 

 

Each song on Julian’s iPod, “that greatest of all human inventions,” is a touchstone. There are songs for the girls from when he was single, there’s the one for the day he met his wife-to-be, there’s one for the day his son was born. But when Julian’s family falls apart, even music loses its hold on him.

Until one snowy night in Brooklyn, when his life’s soundtrack -- and life itself -- start to play again. Julian 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 plays out, though they never meet. What follows is a heartbreaking dark comedy, the tenderest of love stories, and a perfectly observed tale of the way we live now.

 

Arthur Phillips is the internationally bestselling author of Angelica, The Egyptologist, and Prague, which was a New York Times Notable Book and winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. He lives in New York with his wife and two sons.

 

“Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think, and for those of us who try to think and feel, The Song Is You captures the flip sides of life at middle age pretty much perfectly. Arthur Phillips is that rare thing among fiction writers, a wise guy who’s also wise.” -- Kurt Andersen

“Impossible to put down.” -- New York Times Book Review
 
Read Phillips on music in The Believer. Check out Phillips’ playlist for the New York Times Living with Music.

 

 

The Egyptologist (Paperback)

By Arthur Phillips
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780812972597
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 05/01/2005

Prague (Paperback)

By Arthur Phillips
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780375759772
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 06/01/2003

The Song Is You (Paperback)

By Arthur Phillips
$15.00
ISBN-13: 9780812977912
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 03/01/2010

Angelica (Paperback)

By Arthur Phillips
$14.00
ISBN-13: 9780812972603
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 02/01/2008

The Egyptologist (Paperback)

By Arthur Phillips
$13.95
ISBN-13: 9780812972597
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 05/01/2005
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