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001			on1030446626
003			OCoLC
005			20190201134630.0
008			180327s2019 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2018014507
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCQ _dBDX _dYDX _dLIV _dOCLCO _dJQR _dOJ4 _dTCH _dXZ9 _dILC _dVAX _dD9M _dNFG
020			_a9780525654674 _q(hardcover)
020			_a0525654674 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1030446626
042			_apcc
092			_aCander, _bChris
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aCander, Chris, _eauthor. _9384743
245	1	4	_aThe weight of a piano / _cChris Cander.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a1901
264		1	_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c2019.
300			_a323 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_aIn 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life: a Blüthner piano, built at the turn of the century in Germany, on which she discovers everything that she herself can do with music and what music, in turn, does for her. Yet after marrying, she emigrates with her young family from Russia to America, at her husband's frantic insistence, and her piano is lost in the shuffle. In 2012, in Bakersfield, California, twenty-six-year-old Clara Lundy loses another boyfriend and again has to find a new apartment, which is complicated by the gift her father had given her for her twelfth birthday, shortly before he and her mother died in a fire that burned their house down: a Blüthner upright she has never learned to play. Orphaned, she was raised by her aunt and uncle, who in his car-repair shop trained her to become a first-rate mechanic, much to the surprise of her subsequent customers. But this work, her true mainstay in a scattered life, is put on hold when her hand gets broken while the piano's being moved--and in sudden frustration she chooses to sell it. And what becomes crucial is who the most interested party turns out to be...
520			_a1962, the Soviet Union. Eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed a Blüthner piano, built at the turn of the century in Germany, on which she discovers everything that she herself can do with music and what music, in turn, does for her. Years later, married, she emigrates from Russia to America; her piano is lost in the shuffle. 2012, Bakersfield, California. Auto mechanic Clara Lundy's search for an apartment is complicated by the gift her parents gave her shortly before they died in a fire: a Blüthner upright she has never learned to play. When her hand gets broken while the piano's being moved, she decides to sell it. -- adapted from jacket
650		0	_aPiano _vFiction. _952912
650		0	_aWomen _vFiction. _948213
650		0	_aInterpersonal relations _vFiction. _98929
651		0	_aSoviet Union _vFiction. _955010
651		0	_aBakersfield (Calif.) _vFiction. _9156042
655		7	_aDomestic fiction. _2lcgft _93574
994			_aC0 _bNFG
999			_c287567 _d287567