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    The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve Lopez

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    (Hardcover)

    • Pub. Date: April 2008
    • 288pp
    • Sales Rank: 19,688
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      • Pub. Date: April 2008
      • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
      • Format: Hardcover, 288pp
      • Sales Rank: 19,688

      Synopsis

      Now a major motion picture-"An intimate portrait of mental illness, of atrocious social neglect, and the struggle to resurrect a fallen prodigy." (Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down)

      This is the true story of journalist Steve Lopez's discovery of Nathaniel Ayers, a former classical bass student at Julliard, playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles' Skid Row. Deeply affected by the beauty of Ayers's music, Lopez took it upon himself to change the prodigy's life-only to find that their relationship has had a profound change on his own life.

      Buzz Bissinger

      Written with elegant spareness, there are no punches pulled in this portrait of Nathaniel Ayers, but God do you root and hope and pray for him. Many books claim to be about redemption and the affirmation of the human spirit, but they are false gospels. The Soloist is singularly and unforgettably true in all respects. (Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights)

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      Biography

      Steve Lopez is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, where he first wrote a series of enormously popular columns about Nathaniel Ayers.

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      A Good Readby Alittlebit

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      November 11, 2009: The beginning and middle were very addictive type reading. You want to keep reading, the writing sytle flows easily and brings you through the story. Then toward the last third of the book I was a little bored as the story became predictable. Still, overall a good read.

      Touching and thought-provokingby LyndaT

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      September 14, 2009: A very real look at mental illness told from the perspective of a journalist who befriends a man who is a Julliard-trained musician and schizophrenic. Our book club had in-depth discussions about who decides what is best for the mentally ill.


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