The fiddler in the subway : the true story of what happened when a world-class violinist played for handouts-- and other virtuoso performances by America's foremost feature writer / Gene Weingarten.
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TextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, c2010.Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. edDescription: xvii, 363 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: - 1439181594 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
- 9781439181591 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
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Dr. James Carlson Library | NonFiction | 817.6 W423 | Available | 33111006007922 |
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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 is--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. Weingarten's story went viral, becoming a widely referenced lesson about life lived too quickly. Other classic stories--the one about "The Great Zucchini," a wildly popular but personally flawed children's entertainer; the search for the official "Armpit of America"; a profile of the typical American nonvoter--all of them reveal as much about their readers as they do their subjects.