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Book

Piano lessons : music, love & true adventures

Call Number

  • 786.2 A2162 (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

New York : Delta Trade Paperbacks, [1997], ©1996.

Physical Description

xix, 250 pages ; 21 cm

Summary

The author describes his midlife decision to learn to play the piano, a lifelong dream that made him reevaluate his life achievements and that was bolstered by his admiration for accomplished pianists.

Notes

Originally published: New York : Delacorte Press, 1996.

Contents

  • January. Why does a fifty-one-year-old man decide he has to have a piano?
  • February. Here comes the truck! What do I do now?
  • March. Getting past middle C with a computer looking over my shoulder
  • April. The oldest piano in the world plus the sweet inspirations of rock and roll
  • May. John Grisham? I've met him. He's rich. Bet he can't play the piano
  • June. The attack of the humidity monster and a songwriter's million-selling moment
  • July. Throwing a firefly to Kansas could be easier than learning "Misty"
  • August. I'm riding this piano bicycle through the puddles, and there's a big wet streak up my back
  • September. An assignment in Ireland, two weeks off in Maine. What's a piano?
  • October. Salvation at a music camp, but they make me play in front of people
  • November. A Vermont guy who loves free pianos and a New York teacher who adores Steinways
  • December. My wife falls in love with a piano player in a tuxedo, and the night is still young.

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