The Fiddle Case
by Christine Palamidessi Moore
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Author: Christine Palamidessi MooreEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-09-02
ISBN: 1439202990
Number of pages: 244
Publisher: IAP
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Book Review: Stick Out Your Thumb and Take the Trip
Summary: 5 Stars
The Fidldle Case brought me back to the days in the late 60's and early 70's when you could stick out your thumb and cast yourself into any adventure. Anna and Cindy travel through a landscape filled with Appalachian scoundrels, down to earth saviors, false prophets, brainwashed devotees and just plain good friends and lovers.
The music scene in the book is true to form and shows us a time when pure motives began to turn to dark.. At any point in their trip, Anna and Cindy could have turned around and gone home but the music and its spell keeps them going. Like all great traveling stories, the trip and not the goal becomes the reason to go.
Anna and Cindy show us of the foundation of our present world and its music. There are no illusions. The times were both simple and complex. Coming of age is never easy. Anna and Cindy do it with love and grace and some hair raising adventures. If I were you, I would stick out my thumb and join them.
Summary of The Fiddle Case
"Music is spiritual The music business is not." Van Morrison If you didn't live through the 70s , open the window and feel the breeze. Read this one of a kind book. You'll witness the end of the peace and love era as big business, branding and surveillance pounce on the ideals of the youth generation. The Fiddle Case is set in the summer of 1972, the summer when everything changed. Anna and Cindy, the main characters, are both nineteen and beginning to form identities. Anna is tomboyish; Cindy, a seductress who has viewpoints on everything. While on a road trip to return a stolen fiddle to a famous musician, they deal with men, their sexuality, jealousy, innocence and money. Their car breaks down. They hitchhike, take risks and make difficult decisions. The Group, a counterculture cult as interested in finding the fiddle's owner as they are, watches their every move. On the journey, not only is Anna and Cindy's friendship threatened, but also their lives. The Fiddle Case breathes life into the sights, smells, and sounds of America culture during the early 70s. The hippie era dies, folk music goes corporate, airlines initiate security checks, and the 80s with its money markets and three-piece suits loom near on the horizon.Action & Adventure Books
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