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Title Statement | Private lessons / Cynthia Salaysay. |
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Author | Salaysay, Cynthia |
Publication | Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press,2020. |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 308 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781536209600 1536209600 |
Other Number | 3752671 |
Summary | Seventeen-year-old Claire Alalay likes herself best when she plays her father's old piano, a welcome escape from the sadness of missing him -- and from her traditional Filipino mother's prayer groups. After placing third in a local competition, and with hopes of earning a college scholarship, Claire auditions for Paul Avon, a prominent piano teacher, who agrees to take Claire as a pupil. Soon Claire loses herself in Paul's world and his way of digging into a composition's emotional core. She practices constantly, foregoing a social life, but no matter how hard she works, it seems impossible to gain Paul's approval, let alone his affection. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Rape--Fiction |
Piano teachers--Fiction | |
Piano--Fiction--Performance | |
Teacher-student relationships--Fiction | |
Mothers and daughters--Fiction | |
Fathers--Fiction--Death | |
Teenage girls--Fiction | |
By Location | San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction |
By Genre | Psychological fiction |
Bildungsromans |