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Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family

Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family

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Availability:In StockContributor:Daniel BergnerPublish date:2017-09-05Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Lee Boudreaux / Back Bay BooksISBN-13:9780316300636ISBN-10:316300632UPC:9780316300636Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Music, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Entertainment & Performing ArtsSize:8.00 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCK83DFJTT
The New York Times bestseller about a young black man's journey from violence and despair to the threshold of stardom: "A beautiful tribute to the power of good teachers" (Terry Gross, Fresh Air).

"One of the most inspiring stories I've come across in a long time."-Pamela Paul, New York Times Book Review

Ryan Speedo Green had a tough upbringing in southeastern Virginia: his family lived in a trailer park and later a bullet-riddled house across the street from drug dealers. His father was absent; his mother was volatile and abusive.

At the age of twelve, Ryan was sent to Virginia's juvenile facility of last resort. He was placed in solitary confinement. He was uncontrollable, uncontainable, with little hope for the future.

In 2011, at the age of twenty-four, Ryan won a nationwide competition hosted by New York's Metropolitan Opera, beating out 1,200 other talented singers. Today, he is a rising star performing major roles at the Met and Europe's most prestigious opera houses.

Sing for Your Life chronicles Ryan's suspenseful, racially charged and artistically intricate journey from solitary confinement to stardom. Daniel Bergner takes readers on Ryan's path toward redemption, introducing us to a cast of memorable characters -- including the two teachers from his childhood who redirect his rage into music, and his long-lost father who finally reappears to hear Ryan sing. Bergner illuminates all that it takes -- technically, creatively -- to find and foster the beauty of the human voice. And Sing for Your Life sheds unique light on the enduring and complex realities of race in America.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Lee Boudreaux / Back Bay BooksISBN-13:9780316300636ISBN-10:316300632UPC:9780316300636Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Music, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Entertainment & Performing ArtsSize:8.00 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCK83DFJTT
Daniel Bergner is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and the author of a novel, Moments of Favor, and four books of nonfiction: What Do Women Want?, The Other Side of Desire, In the Land of the Magic Soldiers, and God of the Rodeo. In the Land of Magic Soldiers received an Overseas Press Club Award for international reporting and a Lettre-Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage and was named a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. God of the Rodeo was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. In addition to the New York Times Magazine, Daniel's writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Granta, Harper's, Mother Jones, Talk, and the New York Times Book Review, and on the op-ed page of the New York Times. His writing is included in The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction.
Publisher: Lee Boudreaux / Back Bay Books

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