Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family (Thorndike Press Large Print Biographies and Memoirs) - Hardcover

Bergner, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410494497 ISBN 13: 9781410494498

Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print, 2016

Synopsis

A chronicle of a young black man's journey from violence to the world's elite opera circles describes Ryan Speedo Green's abuse-marked upbringing and struggles with racism and imprisonment before winning a New York Metropolitan Opera competition.

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About the Author

Daniel Bergner is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and the author of a novel, Moments of Favor, and four books of nonfiction: What Do Women Want?, The Other Side of Desire, In the Land of the Magic Soldiers, and God of the Rodeo. In the Land of Magic Soldiers received an Overseas Press Club Award for international reporting and a Lettre-Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage and was named a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. God of the Rodeo was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. In addition to the New York Times Magazine, Daniel's writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Granta, Harper's, Mother Jones, Talk, and the New York Times Book Review, and on the op-ed page of the New York Times. His writing is included in The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Nonfiction.

Review

PRAISE FOR WHAT DO WOMEN WANT?
"This book -- how do I put this without sounding hyperbolic? This book should be read by every woman on earth. ... It is a must-read for any person with even a remote erotic interest in the female gender." "Salon""

"Shatters many of our most cherished myths about desire." "The Atlantic""

"Fascinating... Threatens to disrupt all the modern stereotypes of female sexuality." "Slate""

"Totally engrossing." "New York""

"One of the summer's hottest books... adds both steam and explosives into the national conversation about what it means to be a woman today." "Vogue""

PRAISE FOR GOD OF THE RODEO
"Chilling and heartbreaking...A vivid, ambitious, and ferociously reported book that reads like a novel." "New York Times Book Review""

"Bergner neither sentimentalizes nor demonizes these men, neither judges nor approves; he just paints them as they are and in so doing delivers an astonishing lesson in sympathy." "Men's Journal""

PRAISE FOR IN THE LAND OF MAGIC SOLDIERS
"Beautifully written...Bergner describes what is magical and what is malign in Africa as well as anyone ever has...A great novelist would be hard pressed to invent such a cast of characters." "Los Angeles Times""

"Astonishing, unsettling...a remarkable book, full of piercing images and brilliantly observed details." "Chicago Tribune""

"A rare book indeed...Bergner's journey is arduous, dangerous, and brave-a journey in which author and reader are irrevocably changed." "Sunday Times of London""

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1410494497
• ISBN 13: 9781410494498
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 395