An Award-Winning Author
One evening in 1924, Katharine a��Kaya�\x9d Swift a�" the restless but loyal society wife of wealthy banker James Warburg and a serious pianist who longs for recognition a�" attends a concert. The piece: Rhapsody in Blue. The composer: a brilliant young musical genius named George Gershwin. Kay is transfixed, helpless to resist the magnetic pull of Georgea�TMs 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 Georgea�TMs death at the age of thirty-eight. Set in Jazz Age New York, Rhapsody explores the timeless bond between two brilliant, strong-willed artists.