Moon Over Mandalay

By Rhoda Rabinowitz Green

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 097829470X
• ISBN13: 9780978294700
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: BuskerBooks
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Moon over Mandalay

MOON OVER MANDALAY provides a marvellous glimpse into academic life in the early seventies at Bloomington, Indiana, under the aegis (and the aura) of the famed music and theatre schools at that university. April Blume, the book's central protagonist, lives in a run-down house with a group of eccentric characters--students and professors--while pursuing her graduate music studies and teaching at a nearby rural school. Rhoda Rabinowitz-Green writes of these colourful and very bright individuals with rare perception, insight, and humour. April is a fully realized, appreciable, and likeable character. So are the characters with whom she interacts in that extraordinary rented house, at the school where she teaches, and the university where she pursues (with considerable anxiousness) her graduate studies in music performance. We are drawn lovingly into April's life, her slowly burgeoning love life, and her humiliations and triumphs at the hands of her virtuoso teachers. The chapter depicting a performance session with the famed European pianist--and egomaniac--Benyamin is truly superb in its realization of the drama that passes between these two creative individuals in this highly charged situation. Like the best comedy and social satire, the book brings these characters and their age--an age we think of now as ambered in time--alive for the reader in a compelling, nostalgic, and most rewarding way. Professor Matthew Corrigan Senior Scholar Division of Humanities York University (Former director of programmes in creative writing at SUNY-Binghamton and York Universities.)

Delicious Romp!

The Swinging Sixties! Were you there? We were, and loved Moon Over Mandalay, Rhoda Rabinowitz-Green's delicious, juicy, page-turning story of a mixed bag of characters sharing a ramshackle house appropriately dubbed The Ménage. Rabinowitz-Green is a terrific story teller who has nailed those years perfectly. You can go home again....

Revisiting the Seventies.

Were you too young or too old to know what was happening in the 70's? Have you ever wondered about how your approaching "Senior Citizen" friends got that way? Rhoda Rabinowitz-Green's romantic comedy sets the stage for our artistic and intellectual contemporaries finding themselves in middle America. There is the English "town and gown" transformed into upwardly mobile young intellectuals and earth bound rustics . Love of theater and music is entwined with love of verbal sparring and sex. Street language and tender emotions combine with convincing settings and fast moving dialogue to conjure up young graduate school life that you may have missed almost 40 years ago when our culture turned a corner.

Mandalay revisitted

A big plus for Moon Over Mandalay. A great combination intellectual and sexual relationships, with humor thrown into the mix. It was great!

Immerse Yourself in a Lighthearted World

If you want to relax into the hands of fine writer and an upbeat, funny, sensitive novel, MOON OVER MANDALAY is the book to buy. Set in the seventies, MOON follows a fascinating array of bright, aware characters, unexpectedly thrust into communal living, as they seek their paths in life and love. Everywhere there is music: classical, contemporary; everywhere there is love: free or committed, always full of obstacles; and everywhere there is the wit of an author who cherishes beauty, comedy, art, music, humanity and love. If you want to be immersed in a lighthearted world when everything was still possible, if you want to drop everything but the sheer pleasure of a delightful read, cozy down with this novel.