Free Download Gene Weingarten, "The Fiddler in the Subway: the true of what happened when a world-class violinist played for handouts and other virtuoso performances by America’s foremost feature writer"
English | 2010 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 1439181594 | EPUB | 2,2 mb
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.
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