Soloist A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music

Name: Soloist A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
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ISBN: 9780399155062

ISBN-10: 0399155066

ISBN-13: 9780399155062

Edition: 2008

Authors: Steve Lopez

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A moving story of the remarkable bond between a journalist in search of a story and a homeless, classically trained musiciandestined to be a major motion picture from DreamWorks, starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. 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 Juilliardambitious, charming, and also one of the few African-Americansuntil 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…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/17/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.24" wide x 9.30" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English