Sonata
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Sonata

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Sonata

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About This Book

Andrea, already a promising and ambitious classical pianist at twelve, was diagnosed with a severe case of rheumatoid arthritis that threatened not just her musical aspirations but her ability to live a normal life. As Andrea navigates the pain and frustration of coping with RA alongside the usual travails of puberty, college, sex, and just growing-up, she turns to music—specifically Franz Schubert's sonata in B-flat D960, and the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein for strength and inspiration. The heartbreaking story of this mysterious sonata—Schubert's last, and his most elusive and haunting—is the soundtrack of Andrea's story. Sonata is a coming of age story that explores a "Janus-head miracle"—Andrea's extraordinary talent and even more extraordinary illness—in a manner, reminiscent of Brain on Fire and Poster Child. Like the goshawk becomes a source of both devotion and frustration for Helen Macdonald in H Is for Hawk, so the piano comes to represent both struggle and salvation for Andrea in this extraordinary debut.

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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Year
2017
ISBN
9781681774732
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Prelude/Before
  5. Movement I: Allegro Giocoso/QUICK, LIVELY; JOYFUL
  6. Movement II: Andante alla Zoppa/Walking, limping
  7. Movement III: Largo Affannato/Slow, anguished
  8. Caesura/Interruption
  9. Cadenza/Improvisation
  10. Movement IV: Tempo Comodo/At a comfortable tempo
  11. Da Capo al Fine/Start again
  12. Acknowledgments
  13. Endnotes
  14. Copyright