Almost Like a Song - Hardcover

Milsap, Ronnie; Carter, Tom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070423741 ISBN 13: 9780070423749

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1990

Synopsis

The blind Country and Western singer recounts his difficult childhood, describes the highlights of his professional career, and discusses the people and events that contributed to his success

About this title

From Library Journal:

A highly acclaimed country music performer since the early 1970s, Milsap has written an engaging autobiography that will not only appeal to his fans but to fans of good memoir writing generally. Sightless since birth, abandoned shortly thereafter by his mother, he spent his early years with his paternal grandparents and institutionalized in his native North Carolina's Governor Morehead School for the Blind. He effectively relates these formative years, marked by adversity, triumph, and immersion into music. The long migration he made from classical piano student to one-night-stand bluesman to multimillion-dollar country music superstar is a fascinating story told in a folksy yet powerful manner. A man of obvious natural intellect as well as innate musical ability, Milsap has written a book full of humor, sadness, inspiration, and irony that sheds light not only on his own life but on the diverse worlds of the music industry and the visually impaired.
- David M. Turkalo, Social Law Lib . , Boston
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

Born blind, Milsap was abandoned by his mother, who considered his birth a punishment from God, and raised by loving grandparents in rural North Carolina. With their care and his own strong will, he made the most of his schooling and musical talents, growing up to become a leading country-music performer. Here he tells of his childhood, marriage and career; most affecting are his accounts of being blind in a world of people with sight. Unable as a boy to convince neighbors that he could read Braille, he even today encounters people who respond as though the blind are inferior to the sighted. word choice? how does this differ from "responding as though the blind are inferior..."?eed/see fix.gs His autobiography is sentimental, but nonetheless inspiring. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0070423741
• ISBN 13: 9780070423749
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 259