Romantic, evocative and suspenseful, Life is a Melody, weaves an unforgettable collection of memoirs, based on a young man s journal entries during the summer of his eighteenth year. Set in Virginia in the late 1970 s, John Tierney has journeyed from his hometown of Burlington, Vermont to his aunt s house in Elkton, Virginia to come to terms with his future career plans versus his parents pre-determined ideas for his future. A sensitive, intuitive young man, John is torn between loyalty to his family and his personal beliefs that his father, the owner of a textile mill, has exploited the...