The Fiddler in the Subway: The Ture Story of What Happened When a World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . and Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Featur
by Weingarten, Gene
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- 9781439181591
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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 isâÈ'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. WeingartenâÈçs story went viral, becoming a widely referenced lesson about life lived too quickly. Other classic storiesâÈ'the one about âÈêThe Great Zucchini,âÈë a wildly popular but personally flawed childrenâÈçs entertainer; the search for the official âÈêArmpit of AmericaâÈë; a profile of the typical American nonvoterâÈ'all of them reveal as much about their readers as they do their subjects.
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- The Fiddler in the Subway: The Ture Story of What Happened When a World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . and Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Featur
- Author
- Weingarten, Gene
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 1439181594
- ISBN 13
- 9781439181591
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- Ny
- Date Published
- 2010
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