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A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music

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The Soloist

A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music

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When Steve Lopez saw Nathaniel Ayers playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles' skid row, he found it impossible to walk away.More than thirty years earlier, Ayers had been a promising classical bass student at Juilliard—ambitious, charming, and also one of the few African-Americans—until he gradually lost his ability to function, overcome by schizophrenia. When Lopez finds him, Ayers is homeless, paranoid, and deeply troubled, but glimmers of that brilliance are still there.Over time, Steve Lopez and Nathaniel Ayers form a bond, and Lopez imagines that he might be able to change Ayers's life.Lopez collects donated violins, a cello, even a stand-up bass and a piano; he takes Ayers to Walt Disney Concert Hall and helps him move indoors. For each triumph, there is a crashing disappointment, yet neither man gives up. In the process of trying to save Ayers, Lopez finds that his own life is changing, and his sense of what one man...

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The Soloist
2010, Transworld
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The soloist
2010, Charnwood
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Soloist
2009, Transworld Publishers Limited
in English
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The soloist: a lost dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of music
2008, Thorndike Press
in English - Large print ed.
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The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
May 01, 2008, Blackstone Audio, Inc., Blackstone Audiobooks
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The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
April 17, 2008, Putnam Adult, G.P. Putnam's Sons
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The soloist: a lost dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of music
2008, G.P. Putnam's Sons
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2008, Penguin USA, Inc.
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The soloist: a lost dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of music
2008, G. P. Putnam's Sons
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