Playing From Memory

By David Milofsky

Book Overview

Playing From Memory is a deeply moving, compassionate novel about the power of marriage to survive under stress, a love story that tells of a musician's courageous battle against a degenerative illness and his wife's struggle to face the end of their life together.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671252526
• ISBN13: 9780671252526
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Music, Marriage and Medicine

I read only a few novels a year carefully chosen I enjoy good ones and Milofsky's kept me engaged all the way. Music, illness, family, hardships dealt with realistically, voices human and distinctive. University town (Madison); string quartet; multiple sclerosis--not met with often in fiction.

read this years ago

and if I could find a copy,would read it again!

Please read this book

What a lovely book.... Milofsky's characters are human and whole. While the reader may not always like the way they behave we cannot deny how real they feel. I sobbed like a baby at the end. I knew what was coming, I just didn't know how and it was touching, sad, and beautiful. Please, support fiction not published by the major crank 'em out houses--buy and read this book.