| When the Music Stopped: Discovering My Mother Contributor(s): Cottle, Thomas J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791459985 ISBN-13: 9780791459980 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $28.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2005 Annotation: A son's coming to terms with his mother's decision to abandon her career as a concert painist in order to raise her children. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Social Scientists & Psychologists - Biography & Autobiography | Music |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2003066186 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6" W x 9.04" (0.92 lbs) 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the story of one woman's decision to forfeit a brilliant career for the sake of motherhood. Once a child prodigy, Gitta Gradova traveled the world as an internationally acclaimed concert pianist, performing recitals as well as appearing with prominent orchestras of her era. Her son Thomas J. Cottle uses written records, interviews, and personal reminiscence to reconstruct her life, as well as their own mother-son relationship. He is at times a storyteller, at times a psychologist, at times a son seeking to uncover those aspects of his mother's life he could never know, or perhaps, chose not to know until it was too late. |