Marlboro Music Festival Setting for Luskin's Novel, Into the Wilderness

Williamsville, VT, July 14, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Into the Wilderness takes place at the Marlboro Music Festival in 1964, when Pablo Casals was at the podium, Rudoph Serkin at the keyboard, and the Guaneri Quartet took the stage for the very first time. Luskin will be reading from the novel and talking about the musical background to this "fiercely intelligent love story."

“Music is central to the novel . . . Luskin is convincing in translating the aural, physical and emotional power of music into words on the paper. The result is a wonderful novel.” (Addison Independent) Music is the only common language spoken between Rose Mayer, a Jewish widow from New York and Percy Mendell, a born-and-bred Vermonter. Rose reluctantly visits her son at his summer place in Vermont, where there are neither sidewalks, Democrats nor other Jews. There is, however, the Marlboro Music Festival. It’s there that she meets Percy Mendell, a born and bred Vermonter who has never married, never voted for a Democrat, and never left the state.

As one reviewer notes, it is the Marlboro Music Festival that “takes on the quiet catalytic personal of matchmaker,” allowing these two to transcend their political bickering and admit their surprising attraction. There’s music for the readers, as well, in Luskin’s lyrical language. “I’ve never read a better description of music in words,” writes a musician from Berkeley. This tender romance between these appealing 64-year olds, is told with humor, wit and compassion. Set against the backdrop of Vermont’s changing seasons, Into the Wilderness is both a love story and a testament to the endurance of the human heart.

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