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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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Beautiful cover, brilliant prologue, interesting premise, terrible execution. That pretty much sums up my review of "The Song Is You" by Arthur Phillips. Don't get me wrong, I love beautiful lines of prose (and Arthur Phillips can write very well - my hat tips to him) and I love music-themed books, but this was one of the examples of how not to use music within a story. The references to Julian Donahue's Ipod in this story were too much and more telling than they were showing in natural veins.

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

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.

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

Okay... this one is complicated. I have to admit that I came into this novel with a lot of trepidation, as 1) both my wife and one of my dearest interweb friends had already read this and HATED it; and 2) I'd read Phillips' debut "Prague" several years back and HATEDHATEDHATED it with a truly unreasonable passion. So to say I was surprised to find myself enjoying this novel is something of an understatement. But I did: Phillips has a gorgeous, lyrical way with words, and he tells his story in

In this book, Mr. Phillips is only several atoms away from doing what I most love to read authors doing: a kind of gentle postmodern magical realism, which doesn't necessarily include actual magic or anything literally fantastical, but dabbles in the dreamlike, the linguistically indulgent, the poetic in its storytelling. It's almost perfect, even in its rather uncomfortable moments (of which there are several). The lines between what is really happening, what a character is imagining, and what

So I am torn by this book. On one hand it is a great story of an unconsummated love affair. It absolutely captures the obsessive mental energies that can be spent on another person even--no especially--one with whom we have little to no actual contact. The middle sections were funny and cute and wonderful (end of Spring and most of Summer). However, it took me 3 days to read the first part (Winter) and I was rather bored through Fall at the end (although that was a mere 17 pages).I am also not a