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June 17, 2008
Perri Knize, ’76
Grand Obsession: A Piano Odyssey, Scribner, 2008.
The book: What begins as a search for a simple upright piano becomes a grand obsession. The author’s quest leads her into an international subculture of piano aficionados—concert artists, passionate amateurs, dealers, technicians, composers, designers and builders—intriguing characters who have also been transfixed by the spell of a piano. For example, in Austria, she hikes the Alps to learn how trees are selected to build pianos and how they are grown and harvested. Along her journey, Knize finds that reason can't account for what calls us, but that heeding that call can lead to life's most profound experiences.
The author: Perri Knize is an award-winning environmental policy reporter whose articles and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Audubon, Sports Illustrated, Conde Nast Traveler and Outside. She lives with her husband in Montana.
Web site: www.grandobsession.com/
Posted by lingjiex at June 17, 2008 01:15 PM