The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto (Signed Book)
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| ISBN-13: | 9780062433237 |
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| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Publication date: | 11/10/2015 |
| Edition description: | Signed Edition |
| Pages: | 496 |
| Product dimensions: | 7.40(w) x 5.70(h) x 1.80(d) |
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The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto: A Novel
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A master story teller weaves fact, fiction and fantasy into an amazing story. I could almost believe the character actually lived this life.
The voice of Music is exactly the pitch, tone and empathy I would expect. Masterful!
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Couldn't put it down
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As a musician was very familiar with musical tems and the musicians fun srory
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Love it so far!
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Man and music meet beautifully in this tale of life. Heartbreaking and heartwarming, this story uses history and musical figures to show how much influence we have on each other. Whether we're giving money to a man on the street or taking our child to a sport event. Everything we do and we are, are all connected. Definitely will share this with people I know. Beautiful story and characters. Well developed personification of music. Wonderful use of fictional "interviews". The story moves well and is a quick read. Had me in tears several times. Overall a solid work.
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I wanted this book to never end. Mitch Albom, once again, had me in tears. Beautifully written.
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Reading this book meant totally immersing myself in the story and I found it hard to put it down. The characters were believable and the story fascinating, heartbreaking, joyful, and hopeful. I was sad to come to the end and find myself "missing" all those I met in the book.
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I've loved most of Mitch Albom's books, and enjoyed them all, but this one was amazing. It truly was one of those books I just "couldn't put down." Among all of his fiction, this one ranks right up there with his first novel, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven," at least as good, if not even better. And he clearly is as well versed in music as he is in the sports scene where he first made his name as a sports writer for the Detroit Free Press.
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Does Mitch Albom know how good this book is?
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From beginning to end!
I couldn't put the book down!
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This is a love story filled with music, sad, joyful, and everything in between. I really did not want it to end.
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Fooooooooooooooood
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Born with a musical talent no one can deny. Frankie Presto life is told by “Music” itself. We learn about the life of Frankie, as those who loved him come together to celebrate a man who can not be replaced.
There is something I love about Mitch Albom books. The inspirational way the stories are told and each one get more creative than the next. The fictional story of Frankie Presto and his talented life, show that you can’t run away from what god given talent you have because it is part of that person’s being. I may not have musical talent but I have artist talent. I have known how to draw from the time I was little. Like Frankie Presto there were times I stopped doing anything artist but it found it’s always back to me. The same happens for Frankie, many times.
Even though the book goes back and forth through Frankie’s life and death. I was still not prepared to say goodbye. I wanted to know more about Frankie, his wife and daughter. Even though I wanted the story to go on. I disliked that fact that the author felt he had to reveal Frankie’s true history, who his mother and father was. I think I would have been okay for Frankie to have never known this info because in real life you do not get all the answers.
Mitch Albom has written another inspirational book. It sparks questions about life, death and what talent we grabbed for ourselves while being born. We reach for the stars and some of us, like Frankie, become one.
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Love Mitch Albom as a writer, and have told him so on the tram at the Detroit Metro Airport where I'm based. But struggled to read the first fifty pages of this book, and ultimately archived it. Can't see giving it another try.
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We are introduced to Frankie Presto, by his most trusted friend, as his funeral is about to begin. The friend serves as the narrator for the reflection of this musician’s life and proves to as trustworthy to the reader as it was a friend to Mr. Presto. The setting for the tale, although it’s telling will circle to globe, is Villareal, Spain. The reason this narrator is present at the funeral of a world-famous musician is the obverse of why he was present at Mr. Presto’s birth. The narrator is Music and music was the talent Frank chooses at birth, “at that precise moment Frankie Presto was born. His tiny hands clenched and he took a piece of me.” (p. 8) and he was in attendance to gather that was lent (“I am a loan, not a possession” p. 4). The story then connects these two moments, filling the pages of this book and, if allowed, will fill the heart and mind of the reader while painting a vivid picture in the imagination of the reader of what possibilities may lay within each of us.
Frankie Presto was born amid war, abandoned repeatedly by those who served as his mothers, reared in love by tough, committed men who nurtured the talent he choose at birth. He was forced to use that talent to survive the hurt life brought his way. “Music is pain” (p. 66) states El Maestro, Frankie’s first music teacher and he learns the truth of that theorem well but, in so doing, he learns that Music is also an antidote for that pain as well. Repeatedly, the narrator interviews some of those who have come to pay their respects to Mr. Presto – Marcus Belgrave, Darlene Love, Abby Cruz, Burt Bacharach are only a few of those who chose similar talents at birth who were “interviewed” – all speak of some of the contributions Mr. Presto made to music and to their lives. Each voice highlights the influence music has made in how Frankie lives, “Do not cry over losing blood. Not (doing so) for something you love.” (p. 67) Music is a demanding talent; the rewards of developing it can affect the universe with its beauty.
The brilliance of using Music to voice the biography of a fictional, musical megastar is two-fold: Music “knows,” and therefore the reader knows, information that is helping drive the life of the hero. Letting the reader to “peek behind the curtain” at how the universe may actually function. Secondly, the entire book becomes a meditation on transcendence. Each reader is in possession of talent(s), some develop those gifts to a fine edge, some enjoy them only for a moment or for a small audience, some have to return the talent early, as Fate kept them from having sufficient time to develop their part of that Talent before they had to return it. The reader is given the occasion to ponder the talent they possess and reflect upon how she/he has attended to its maturity. In joining such a discussion, one must consider how that “chosen talent” they have been loaned both joins one to all-that-is while transcending the very moment of living into Life.
I have enjoyed reading all of Mr. Albom’s books. Each has offered me a glimpse of life that glimmered on the periphery of my imagination and brought it into a finely focused vision of hope. The pain life brings is unavoidable, the response given that pain is a choice and Mr. Album does not deny that pain nor the
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Been an Albom fan for a long time. This was one of my favorites with a unique voice.
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Compared to the author's other books, he really missed the mark with this one. Presto is the Forest Gump of musicians and the story bounces around to much. Finally, not for a reader with no musical background .
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Read this for sure
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Top Notch
This is one book I'd love to see made into a movie!
As usual, the writing was excellent and the story telling was even better than excellent. I highly recommend this to any musician to read and to everyone who did not grab the color of Music to read, also. This book is truly "magical."
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