Rhapsody

A Novel

By: Mitchell James Kaplan

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Hardcover | 2 March 2021

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352 Pages

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One evening in 1924, Katharine “Kay” Swift the restless but loyal society wife of wealthy banker James Warburg and a serious pianist who longs for recognition attends a concert. The piece: Rhapsody in Blue . The composer: a brilliant, elusive young musical genius named George Gershwin.

Kay is transfixed, helpless to resist the magnetic pull of George’s talent, charm, and swagger. Their ten-year love affair, complicated by her conflicted loyalty to her husband and the twists and turns of her own musical career, ends only with George’s death from a brain tumor at the age of thirty-eight.

Set in Jazz Age New York City, this stunning work of fiction, for fans of The Paris Wife and Loving Frank , explores the timeless bond between two brilliant, strong-willed artists. George Gershwin left behind not just a body of work unmatched in popular musical history, but a woman who loved him with all her heart, knowing all the while that he belonged not to her, but to the world.

About the Author

Mitchell James Kaplan is the award-winning author of the novels By Fire, By Water and Into the Unbounded Night . A graduate of Yale, he has lived in Paris and Los Angeles, and currently lives with his family in Roanoke, Virginia.

Industry Reviews

“Kaplan (By Fire, by Water) builds an enchanting world featuring musical giants George Gershwin and Kay Swift... This spellbinding and luminous tale will linger in readers’ minds long after the final page is turned.”

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