The Resource The weight of a piano, Chris Cander
The weight of a piano, Chris Cander
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Resource Information
The item The weight of a piano, Chris Cander represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chelmsford Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life: a Blüthner piano, built at the turn of the century in Germany, on which she discovers everything that she herself can do with music and what music, in turn, does for her. Yet after marrying, she emigrates with her young family from Russia to America, at her husband's frantic insistence, and her piano is lost in the shuffle. In 2012, in Bakersfield, California, twenty-six-year-old Clara Lundy loses another boyfriend and again has to find a new apartment, which is complicated by the gift her father had given her for her twelfth birthday, shortly before he and her mother died in a fire that burned their house down: a Blüthner upright she has never learned to play. Ophaned, she was raised by her aunt and uncle, who in his car-repair shop trained her to become a first-rate mechanic, much to the surprise of her subsequent customers. But this work, her true mainstay in a scattered life, is put on hold when her hand gets broken while the piano's being moved--and in sudden frustration she chooses to sell it. And what becomes crucial is who the most interested party turns out to be..
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 323 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525654674
- Label
- The weight of a piano
- Title
- The weight of a piano
- Statement of responsibility
- Chris Cander
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life: a Blüthner piano, built at the turn of the century in Germany, on which she discovers everything that she herself can do with music and what music, in turn, does for her. Yet after marrying, she emigrates with her young family from Russia to America, at her husband's frantic insistence, and her piano is lost in the shuffle. In 2012, in Bakersfield, California, twenty-six-year-old Clara Lundy loses another boyfriend and again has to find a new apartment, which is complicated by the gift her father had given her for her twelfth birthday, shortly before he and her mother died in a fire that burned their house down: a Blüthner upright she has never learned to play. Ophaned, she was raised by her aunt and uncle, who in his car-repair shop trained her to become a first-rate mechanic, much to the surprise of her subsequent customers. But this work, her true mainstay in a scattered life, is put on hold when her hand gets broken while the piano's being moved--and in sudden frustration she chooses to sell it. And what becomes crucial is who the most interested party turns out to be..
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Cander, Chris
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3603.A53585
- LC item number
- W45 2019
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Piano
- Women
- Interpersonal relations
- Soviet Union
- Bakersfield (Calif.)
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Women
- FICTION / Family Life / General
- Label
- The weight of a piano, Chris Cander
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1030446626
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 323 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525654674
- Lccn
- 2018014507
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1030446626
- Label
- The weight of a piano, Chris Cander
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1030446626
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 323 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525654674
- Lccn
- 2018014507
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1030446626
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