Screen LibraryMoscow nights : the Van Cliburn story : how one man and his piano transformed the Cold War /
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Harper Perennial,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: |
2017. ©2016 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First Harper Perennial edition. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published : HarperCollins, 2016. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 452 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [371]-376) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780062333179 (paperback) : 0062333178 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | ML417 |
| CLC: | K837.125.76 |
| Call Number: | K837.125.76/C636C-1 |
| Contents: | First movement: sognando. The prodigy ; Room 412 ; The successor ; Van Cliburn Days ; The secret speech ; The red moon -- Second movement: volante. To Russia, with love ; "Vanya, Vanyusha!" ; "We are in orbit" ; "American Sputnik" ; The last romantic ; "He played the piano and the world was his" ; "He's better than Elvis by far!" ; In the heat of the kitchen ; Khrushchev in the capitalist den ; Back in the USSR ; Sole diplomacy ; Endgame -- Third movement: pianoforte. America's pianist ; Great expectations ; The summit -- Coda. |