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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 Paperback - 2010
by Gene Weingarten
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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.
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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- Title The Fiddler in the Subway: The True Story of What Happened When a World-Class Violinist Played for Handouts... and Other Virtuoso Performances by
- Author Gene Weingarten
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Original
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, NY
- Date 2010-07-06
- Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781439181591 / 1439181594
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.44 x 6.18 x 0.93 in (21.44 x 15.70 x 2.36 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects American wit and humor
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009051668
- Dewey Decimal Code 818.540
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"Every page is a pleasure. . . . A sparkling collection of features by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist, there are plenty of smiles and laughs scattered throughout the uniformly strong pieces assembled here. But the author is about more than grins and giggles. In even the slightest of the essaysâÈ'seeing his daughter off to college, honoring the memory of his childhood baseball heroâÈ'his storytelling, keen observation and deft reporting startle and amaze. . . . Weingarten reliably delivers the goods."
--Kirkus (starred review)
--Kirkus (starred review)
Citations
- Booklist, 07/01/2010, Page 19
- Kirkus Best Books, 12/15/2010, Page 15
- Kirkus Reviews, 05/01/2010, Page 0
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 03/01/2010, Page 62
- Publishers Weekly, 05/17/2010, Page 39
- Shelf Awareness, 01/01/0001, Page 0
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