Far Appalachia: Following the New River North [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Adams, Noah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385320132 ISBN 13: 9780385320139

Verlag: Delta, 2002

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"The host of NPR's All Things Considered now takes readers on another year-long journey, this time through Appalachia -- by canoe, bicycle and white-water raft.. He skims lightly over the depths and navigates the rapids with humor and a sharp eye for telling detail."
-- Publishers Weekly

"Far Appalachia is a lyrical journey through the heart of the mountain South. It is a New River voyage through time and memory penned by a gifted son of Appalachia who -- with the best of us -- has both wings and roots."
-- Sharyn McCrumb, author of The Songcatcher

Praise for Noah Adams's Piano Lessons:

"Charming ... his delight in music-making is palpable."
-- The New Yorker

"[A] charming memoir -- Adams clearly possesses a gift that too many teachers don't -- the ability to convey just how much fun it is to make music, and just how many different ways there are for a piece of music to be beautiful."
-- Newsday

"Entertaining and surprising detail -- Piano Lessons will make you a believer in the quest to find and make music and will have you falling back in love with your own dreams, whatever they may be."
-- John Hockenberry, correspondent, ABC News, author of Moving Violations

"An affectionate tribute ... [from] a writer of considerable merit."
--The Seattle Times

"A truly absorbing story ... with humor and candor ... Adams is a gifted interviewer with a good ear for a story, and Piano Lessons is full of them."
-- Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"Genuinely moving ... Adams writes in the same earnest ... tone that has endeared him to radio listeners for more than twenty years."
-- San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle

"The balance of storytelling -- about pianos specifically, and then into music in general and back again -- rings nicely, with plenty of pushed pedals to sustain it."
-- The Philadelphia Inquirer

"This is a wonderful book, which has a generous, transcendental beauty. The fascination of the river journey lies, for me, in the small details, which refresh and stir the reader like the smell of coffee by a campfire in the morning. I bet I won't be the only reader to be reminded of Thoreau."
-- Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace

Reseña del editor

The host of NPR's "All Things Considered" and best-selling author of Piano Lessons journeys back to the America of his ancestors as he follows the the New River into the heart of modern-day Appalachia on a 330-mile odyssey on foot, by mountain bike, by canoe, and by whitewater raft. Reprint.

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• Verlag: Delta
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0385320132
• ISBN 13: 9780385320139
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256