A Memoir of Pain and the Piano
Paperback
Publication Date: 14/08/2018
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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