9780316205016 - The Lucy Variations von Zarr, Sara (9 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 320 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2013. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's boards in unclipped photo-illustrated dust jacket; [6],304pp. Moderate wear and light soil to dust jacket and textblock margins, old "Signed by the Author" sticker to upper panel, slight spine lean; overall Very Good. Signed by the author on title page. Signed.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Jeffrey Overstreet (Author photograph) (illustrator). The format is approximately 5.625 inches by 8.5 inches. [6], 304, [10] pages. Signed by the author on the title page, with musical note in ink. Sara Zarr (born October 3, 1970) is an American writer. She was raised in San Francisco, and now lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with her husband. Her first novel, Story of a Girl, was a 2007 National Book Award finalist. She has subsequently had nine novels published. Inspired by the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart and Zarr's Christian roots, her third book, Once Was Lost (also published as What We Lost) addresses issues of faith, identity and home. The original title comes from the hymn Amazing Grace written by John Newton. While the characters are Christian, the book was published for a mainstream audience and neither promotes nor criticizes organized religion. In 2008, Zarr contributed to the young adult for Obama project started by fellow YA author Maureen Johnson. Zarr was a regular contributor to Image Journal's Good Letters blog. In 2010, she served as a judge for the National Book Awards. In 2013, Zarr joined the faculty of Lesley University's Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. From 2012-2015; 2020-present Zarr hosted and produced the podcast This Creative Life. It featured Zarr in conversation with other writers. She has self-published a companion book to the podcast. Story of a Girl was adapted into a television movie that will air on Lifetime starting in July 2017. It marks Kyra Sedgwick's directorial debut and features Sedgewick's husband, Kevin Bacon. Lucy Beck-Moreau once had a promising future as a concert pianist. The right people knew her name, her performances were booked months in advance, and her future seemed certain. That was all before she turned fourteen. Now, at sixteen, it's over. A death, and a betrayal, led her to walk away. That leaves her talented ten-year-old brother, Gus, to shoulder the full weight of the Beck-Moreau family expectations. Then Gus gets a new piano teacher who is young, kind, and interested in helping Lucy rekindle her love of piano -- on her own terms. But when you're used to performing for sold-out audiences and world-famous critics, can you ever learn to play just for yourself? National Book Award finalist Sara Zarr takes readers inside one girl's struggle to reclaim her love of music and herself. To find joy again, even when things don't go according to plan. Because life isn't a performance, and everyone deserves the chance to make a few mistakes along the way. Derived from a Kirkus review: Having publicly abandoned a promising piano career after her grandmother died while Lucy Beck-Moreau was a continent away preparing to perform, the 16-year-old struggles to figure out the place of music in her life apart from her family's expectations. What makes Lucy's story especially appealing is the very realistic way this "entitled brat" (as grandfather called her) acts out as she experiments with new identities. Prone to adolescent crushes, she obsesses about an English teacher, impulsively kisses a serviceman met in a candy shop and falls hard for her brother's new piano teacher, Will Devi. Lucy is impressively privileged: Old family money makes it possible for her to wear expensive clothes and attend an exclusive school; the family housekeeper provides important support. She also hurts. As the book opens, eight months after the death of the grandmother she still misses, she's futilely performing CPR on her brother's former teacher, dead of a stroke in the middle of a piano lesson. The third-person narration focuses entirely on Lucy but allows readers enough distance to help them understand her behavior in ways Lucy cannot. Occasional flashbacks fill out the back story. The combination of sympathetic main character and unusual social and cultural world makes this satisfying coming-of-age story stand out. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].