{"product_id":"9780571362899-enough-scenes-from-childhood","title":"Enough Scenes From Childhood","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: Stephen Hough's memoir had me gripped from the beginning riveting and revelatory. Most memoirs give me far more than I want to know this is the rare sort that left me urgently demanding a second volume a third a fourth. I loved it. Philip Pullman Stephen Hough is indisputably one of the world's leading pianists winning global acclaim and numerous awards. This memoir recounts his unconventional coming - of - age story from his beginnings in an unmusical home in Cheshireto the main stage of Carnegie Hall in New York aged 21. We read of his early love - affair with the piano which curdled after a teenage nervous breakdown into failure at school and six - hours a day watching television engulfed in dreams seesawing between sexual and religious obsessions. We meet his supportive if eccentric parents - his artistically frustrated father his housework - hating mother. We read of the teachers who encouraged and inspired and others who hit him on the head screaming you ll do nothing with your life . Then finding his way back to the piano having abandoned plans for an alternative life as a Catholic priest he flourished at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Juilliard School beginning his career as an international soloist as this book ends.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Enough Scenes From Childhood\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Hough Sir Stephen Cbe\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Faber \u0026amp; Faber\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780571362899\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 272 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 4\/11\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Memoirs","brand":"Hough Sir Stephen Cbe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49596445163825,"sku":"IN-G-9780571362899","price":31.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780571362899-enough-scenes-from-childhood","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}