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Sonata

Sonata

A Memoir of Pain and the Piano

by Andrea Avery
Paperback
Publication Date: 14/08/2018

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Andrea, already a promising and ambitious classical pianist at twelve, was diagnosed with a severe case of rheumatoid arthritis that threatened not just her musical aspirations but her ability to live a normal life. As Andrea navigates the pain and frustration of coping with RA alongside the usual travails of puberty, college, sex, and just growing-up, she turns to music--specifically Franz Schubert's sonata in B-flat D960, and the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein for strength and inspiration. The heartbreaking story of this mysterious sonata--Schubert's last, and his most elusive and haunting--is the soundtrack of Andrea's story. Sonata is a coming of age story that explores a "Janus-head miracle"--Andrea's extraordinary talent and even more extraordinary illness--in a manner, reminiscent of Brain on Fire and Poster Child. Like the goshawk becomes a source of both devotion and frustration for Helen Macdonald in H Is for Hawk, so the piano comes to represent both struggle and salvation for Andrea in this extraordinary debut.
ISBN:
9781681777795
9781681777795
Category:
Memoirs
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
14-08-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Pegasusbooks
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
220x145x20mm
Weight:
0.28kg

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