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The Fiddler in the Subway: The True Story of What Happened When a World-Class Violinist Played for Handouts... and Other Virtuoso Performances by Amer
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 i.d.R. innert 14-24 Tagen versandfertig |
| Veröffentlichung: |
Juli 2010
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| Genre: |
Soziologie |
| ISBN: |
9781439181591 |
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9781439181591 |
| Verlag: |
Lingenbrink Georg |
| Einband: |
Kartoniert |
| Sprache: |
English
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| Dimensionen: |
H 214 mm / B 141 mm / D 28 mm |
| Gewicht: |
360 gr |
| Seiten: |
384 |
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GENE WEINGARTEN IS THE O. HENRY OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM
Simply the best storyteller around, Weingarten describes the world as you think it is before revealing how it actually is—in narratives that are by turns hilarious, heartwarming, and provocative, but always memorable.
Millions of people know the title piece about violinist Joshua Bell, which originally began as a stunt: What would happen if you put a world-class musician outside a Washington, D.C., subway station to play for spare change? Would anyone even notice? The answer was no. Weingarten’s story went viral, becoming a widely referenced lesson about life lived too quickly. Other classic stories—the one about “The Great Zucchini,” a wildly popular but personally flawed children’s entertainer; the search for the official “Armpit of America”; a profile of the typical American nonvoter—all of them reveal as much about their readers as they do their subjects. |
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