Piano Lessons Music, Love, and True Adventures

Name: Piano Lessons Music, Love, and True Adventures
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ISBN: 9780385318211

ISBN-10: 0385318219

ISBN-13: 9780385318211

Edition: N/A

Authors: Noah Adams

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Piano Lessons is Noah Adams's delightful and moving chronicle of his fifty-second year--a year already filled with long, fast workdays and too little spare time--as he answers at last a lifelong call: to learn to play the piano. The twelve monthly chapters span from January--when after decades of growing affection for keyboard artists and artisans he finally plunges in and buys a piano--through December, when as a surprise Christmas present for his wife he dresses in a tuxedo and, in flickering candlelight, snow falling outside the windows, he attempts their favorite piece of music, a difficult third-year composition he's been struggling with in secret to get to this very moment. Among…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/10/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.05" wide x 8.16" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Noah Adams is the co-host of NPR's "All Things Considered." He lives with his wife in Takoma Park, Maryland.