![]() ![]() Jeff must go to his father's study and convince him that it is just what he would have chosen. There is a touching scene on Christmas when his father, who has grown a shade more attentive-thanks partly to the admonishment of his new friend Brother Thomas-presents Jeff with a superior guitar. (This event shocks the father into a first, abstracted look.) The summer Jeff turns 12, his mother invites him to stay with her at her grandmother's house in Charleston and though he doesn't see much of her he is overcome with love-cherishing her memory through the year, writing monthly unanswered letters, and buying a cheap used guitar because she had played one. Kramer pathos, when Jeff at seven finds his mother Melody's note explaining that she loves him but had to leave him to help the world's less fortunate and "make things better." Jeff is left with his stiff, expressionless father, "The Professor," who withdraws to his study (while Jeff, that first night, gets dinner) and appears unaware of his son-doing poorly at school, friendless, and a few years later, ill with pneumonia and an overlooked 104° fever. The story begins, matter-of-factly but with Kramer vs. ![]() ![]() This is the story of Jeff Greene, the guitar-playing high school boy Dicey Tillerman meets in Dicey's Song (1982)-but the connection isn't made until near the end. ![]()
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