"a musical confrontation with the difficult and painful recurrences of middle age -- love lost and love renewed, the depredations of time and change, the fear of aging as diminishing possibility . . . a book about enduring need and the transormative power of song." -- Alan Shapiro
"a musical confrontation with the difficult and painful recurrences of middle age -- love lost and love renewed, the depredations of time and change, the fear of aging as diminishing possibility . . . a book about enduring need and the transormative power of song." -- Alan Shapiro