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The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Intended Audience
- Adult
- Inscribed
- NO
- ISBN
- 9780312263768
- Book Title
- Pianist : the Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
- Publisher
- Picador
- Item Length
- 8.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Holocaust, Composers & Musicians, Europe / Poland, Jewish
- Item Weight
- 6.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.7 in
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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The memoir that inspired Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning film, which won the Cannes Film Festival's most prestigious prize--the Palme d'Or. Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor live on the radio as shells exploded outside--so loudly that he couldn't hear his piano. It was the last live music broadcast from Warsaw: That day, a German bomb hit the station, and Polish Radio went off the air. Though he lost his entire family, Szpilman survived in hiding. In the end, his life was saved by a German officer who heard him play the same Chopin Nocturne on a piano found among the rubble. Written immediately after the war and suppressed for decades, The Pianist is a stunning testament to human endurance and the redemptive power of fellow feeling.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
0312263767
ISBN-13
9780312263768
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1711142
Product Key Features
Book Title
Pianist : the Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Holocaust, Composers & Musicians, Europe / Poland, Jewish
Publication Year
2000
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
6.9 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Reviews
"Stunning . . . Filled with unforgettable incidents, images, and people."- The Wall Street Journal "Remarkable . . . a document of lasting historical and human value."- The Los Angeles Times "Historically indispensible."- Washington Post Book World " The Pianist is a great book."- The Boston Globe "Even by the standards set be Holocaust memoirs, this book is a stunner."- Seattle Weekly "A stunning tribute to what one human being can endure, The Pianist is even more-a testimony to the redemptive power of fellow feeling."- The Plain Dealer "Distinguished by [Szpilman's] dazzling clarity . . . Remarkably lucid."- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A striking Holocaust memoir that conveys with exceptional immediacy and cool reportage the author's desperate fight for survival."- Kirkus Reviews " The Pianist is a book so fresh and vivid, so heartbreaking, and so simply and beautifully written, that it manages to tell us the story of horrendous events as if for the first time . . . an altogether unforgettable book. "- The Daily Telegraph "Wladyslaw Szpilman's memoir of life in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and the Jewish ghetto has a singular vividness. All is conveyed with an understated intimacy and dailiness that render them painfully close."- The Observer "It is all told with a simple clarity that lodges the story in one's stomach through a mixture of disgust, terror, despair, rage, and guilt that grips the reader almost gently. "- The Spectator "Illuminates vividly the horror that overcame the Polish people. Szpilman's account has an immediacy, vivid and anguished."- The Sunday Telegraph, A stunning tribute to what one human being can endure, The Pianist is even more--a testimony to the redemptive power of fellow feeling., "Stunning . . . Filled with unforgettable incidents, images, and people."-The Wall Street Journal "Remarkable . . . a document of lasting historical and human value."-The Los Angeles Times "Historically indispensible."-Washington Post Book World "The Pianistis a great book."-The Boston Globe "Even by the standards set be Holocaust memoirs, this book is a stunner."-Seattle Weekly "A stunning tribute to what one human being can endure,The Pianistis even more-a testimony to the redemptive power of fellow feeling."-The Plain Dealer "Distinguished by [Szpilman's] dazzling clarity . . . Remarkably lucid."-Publishers Weekly(starred review) "A striking Holocaust memoir that conveys with exceptional immediacy and cool reportage the author's desperate fight for survival."-Kirkus Reviews "The Pianistis a book so fresh and vivid, so heartbreaking, and so simply and beautifully written, that it manages to tell us the story of horrendous events as if for the first time . . . an altogether unforgettable book. "-The Daily Telegraph "Wladyslaw Szpilman's memoir of life in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and the Jewish ghetto has a singular vividness. All is conveyed with an understated intimacy and dailiness that render them painfully close."-The Observer "It is all told with a simple clarity that lodges the story in one's stomach through a mixture of disgust, terror, despair, rage, and guilt that grips the reader almost gently. "-The Spectator "Illuminates vividly the horror that overcame the Polish people. Szpilman's account has an immediacy, vivid and anguished."-The Sunday Telegraph, "Stunning . . . Filled with unforgettable incidents, images, and people."- The Wall Street Journal "Remarkable . . . a document of lasting historical and human value."-The Los Angeles Times "Historically indispensible."-Washington Post Book World "The Pianist is a great book."-The Boston Globe "Even by the standards set be Holocaust memoirs, this book is a stunner."-Seattle Weekly "A stunning tribute to what one human being can endure, The Pianist is even more-a testimony to the redemptive power of fellow feeling."-The Plain Dealer "Distinguished by [Szpilman's] dazzling clarity . . . Remarkably lucid."-Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A striking Holocaust memoir that conveys with exceptional immediacy and cool reportage the author's desperate fight for survival."-Kirkus Reviews "The Pianist is a book so fresh and vivid, so heartbreaking, and so simply and beautifully written, that it manages to tell us the story of horrendous events as if for the first time . . . an altogether unforgettable book. "-The Daily Telegraph "Wladyslaw Szpilman's memoir of life in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and the Jewish ghetto has a singular vividness. All is conveyed with an understated intimacy and dailiness that render them painfully close."-The Observer "It is all told with a simple clarity that lodges the story in one's stomach through a mixture of disgust, terror, despair, rage, and guilt that grips the reader almost gently. "-The Spectator "Illuminates vividly the horror that overcame the Polish people. Szpilman's account has an immediacy, vivid and anguished."-The Sunday Telegraph, It is all told with a simple clarity that lodges the story in one's stomach through a mixture of disgust, terror, despair, rage, and guilt that grips the reader almost gently., The Pianist is a book so fresh and vivid, so heartbreaking, and so simply and beautifully written, that it manages to tell us the story of horrendous events as if for the first time . . . an altogether unforgettable book., Illuminates vividly the horror that overcame the Polish people. Szpilman's account has an immediacy, vivid and anguished., "Stunning . . . Filled with unforgettable incidents, images, and people." -- The Wall Street Journal "Remarkable . . . a document of lasting historical and human value." -- The Los Angeles Times "Historically indispensible." -- Washington Post Book World " The Pianist is a great book." -- The Boston Globe "Even by the standards set be Holocaust memoirs, this book is a stunner." -- Seattle Weekly "A stunning tribute to what one human being can endure, The Pianist is even more--a testimony to the redemptive power of fellow feeling." -- The Plain Dealer "Distinguished by [Szpilman's] dazzling clarity . . . Remarkably lucid." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A striking Holocaust memoir that conveys with exceptional immediacy and cool reportage the author's desperate fight for survival." -- Kirkus Reviews " The Pianist is a book so fresh and vivid, so heartbreaking, and so simply and beautifully written, that it manages to tell us the story of horrendous events as if for the first time . . . an altogether unforgettable book. " -- The Daily Telegraph "Wladyslaw Szpilman's memoir of life in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and the Jewish ghetto has a singular vividness. All is conveyed with an understated intimacy and dailiness that render them painfully close." -- The Observer "It is all told with a simple clarity that lodges the story in one's stomach through a mixture of disgust, terror, despair, rage, and guilt that grips the reader almost gently. " -- The Spectator "Illuminates vividly the horror that overcame the Polish people. Szpilman's account has an immediacy, vivid and anguished." -- The Sunday Telegraph, Wladyslaw Szpilman's memoir of life in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and the Jewish ghetto has a singular vividness. All is conveyed with an understated intimacy and dailiness that render them painfully close., A striking Holocaust memoir that conveys with exceptional immediacy and cool reportage the author's desperate fight for survival.
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Dewey Decimal
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