When Lopez, an L.A. Times columnist, first saw Nathaniel Ayers in March 2005, he was intrigued. Dressed in grubby, soiled rags standing next to a shopping cart, the middle-aged man was playing Beethoven on a battered violin that looked as if it had been pulled from a dumpster. Lopez found it impossible to walk away from this musical genius whose talent had been buried under years of untreated mental illness, and what originally started out as a simple column has become a moving story about second chances and the power of human connection & friendships.

The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music (Hardcover)

By Steve Lopez

$25.95

ISBN-13: 9780399155062
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Putnam Adult, 4/2008

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