Rhapsody

  • Author: Mitchell James Kaplan
  • Narrator: Tavia Gilbert
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 10:56:41
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Synopsis

“Mitchell James Kaplan [brings] his impressive knowledge of history, composition, and the heart’s whims to bear on this shining rendition of Swift and Gershwin’s star-crossed love.” —Therese Anne Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of Z and A Good Neighborhood

“A lilting, jazzy ballad as catchy as a Gershwin tune…Rhapsody will have you humming, toe-tapping, and singing along with every turn of the page.” —Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network and The Huntress

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.

Chapters

  • 001 Rhapsody Open

    Duration: 11s
  • 002 Rhapsody dedication

    Duration: 07s
  • 003 Rhapsody Prologue

    Duration: 18min
  • 004 Rhapsody Part1 Ch1

    Duration: 23min
  • 005 Rhapsody Part1 Ch2

    Duration: 20min
  • 006 Rhapsody Part1 Ch3

    Duration: 25min
  • 007 Rhapsody Part1 Ch4

    Duration: 40min
  • 008 Rhapsody Part1 Ch5

    Duration: 14min
  • 009 Rhapsody Part1 Ch6

    Duration: 05min
  • 010 Rhapsody Part1 Ch7

    Duration: 10min
  • 011 Rhapsody Part1 Ch8

    Duration: 12min
  • 012 Rhapsody Part2 Ch9

    Duration: 23min
  • 013 Rhapsody Part2 Ch10

    Duration: 51min
  • 014 Rhapsody Part2 Ch11

    Duration: 33min
  • 015 Rhapsody Part2 Ch12

    Duration: 11min
  • 016 Rhapsody Part2 Ch13

    Duration: 27min
  • 017 Rhapsody Part2 Ch14

    Duration: 14min
  • 018 Rhapsody Part2 Ch15

    Duration: 08min
  • 019 Rhapsody Part2 Ch16

    Duration: 17min
  • 020 Rhapsody Part2 Ch17

    Duration: 08min
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