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The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
de Lopez, Steve
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Muy bueno/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0399155066
- ISBN 13
- 9780399155062
- Librería
-
Schenectady, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: G.P Putnam's Sons, 2008. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 273 pages. Lightly bumped at the upper fore-edge corner of the rear panel; jacket has a tiny tear at lower corner of the front panel at spine; slight touch of yellowing to pages.
Sinopsis
When Steve Lopez saw Nathaniel Ayers playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles' skid row, he found it impossible to walk away.More than thirty years earlier, Ayers had been a promising classical bass student at Juilliard—ambitious, charming, and also one of the few African-Americans—until he gradually lost his ability to function, overcome by schizophrenia. When Lopez finds him, Ayers is homeless, paranoid, and deeply troubled, but glimmers of that brilliance are still there.Over time, Steve Lopez and Nathaniel Ayers form a bond, and Lopez imagines that he might be able to change Ayers's life.Lopez collects donated violins, a cello, even a stand-up bass and a piano; he takes Ayers to Walt Disney Concert Hall and helps him move indoors. For each triumph, there is a crashing disappointment, yet neither man gives up. In the process of trying to save Ayers, Lopez finds that his own life is changing, and his sense of what one man...
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Detalles
- Librería
- Iron Engine
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 900483
- Título
- The Soloist
- Autor
- Lopez, Steve
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- very good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First printing
- ISBN 10
- 0399155066
- ISBN 13
- 9780399155062
- Editorial
- G.P Putnam's Sons
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2008
- Catálogos del vendedor
- MUSIC / General;
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Iron Engine
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Schenectady, New York
Sobre Iron Engine
general used and out-of-print books with an interest in sculpture & art.
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