The Skylark's Song: A Novel - Tapa dura

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In The Skylark's Song, Harriet Segal has woven a wondrously involving tale, full of engaging characters and surprising plot threads that take the reader into the colorful sights and sounds of twentieth century America.
The Skylark's Song centers on a matriarch, the widow of a popular Gershwinesque musical-comedy composer. The occasion that brings the Rhinehart clan together is the 75th Birthday Salute in New York for the composer, whose work is enjoying a resurgence on Broadway. As the celebration approaches, Julia, her children and her grandchildren cope with a variety of difficulties, past and present: torrid affairs, crumbling marriages and scandalous legal wranglings which threaten to tear the family apart.
The family is similarly divided in the search for the composer's "lost scores," an entire portfolio he produced in a final outburst of creativity before his sudden death in the late Forties. Interspersed throughout the contemporary narrative are richly evoked flashbacks to World War II-era New York, and Julia's whirlwind romance with the composer, their marriage and his eventual betrayal of her, which will tie in to the disappearance of his last songs.
With Harriet Segal's understanding of the frailties of the human heart, her talent for painting evocative settings, historical and otherwise, The Skylark's Song is a rich, tumultuous narrative by one of the most talented and mature voices in contemporary fiction.