A Passion for Living
The Amazing Story of a Boy Who Makes Every Day Matter
$41.53
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2010
Summary
Our lives are precious. Never more so than for 19-year-old Alexander Stobbs, who has been a cystic fibrosis sufferer from birth. For him, each day could be his last. But as he says, “you can’t do stuff if you’re afraid.”
A truly inspiring story of a young musician determined to live his dreams, Alex takes us on his journey to survive a daily round of drugs and treatments, as he also prepares for his next ambition: to conduct Bach’s three-hour-long St Matthew Passion. Everythi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340978535 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0340978538 |
| Author: | Alexander Stobbs |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2010 |
| Weight: | 173g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 16mm |
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PRAISE FOR THE DOCUMENTARYA BOY CALLED ALEX
PRAISE FOR THE DOCUMENTARY A BOY CALLED ALEX - :
[Alex] was vastly intelligent, perpetually good-humoured, at no point lapsing into either self-pity or fatalism … I would guess Alex’s cheerfulness was a quite conscious piece of defiance. - IndependentAlex s final thumbs-up as he took his curtain call expressed the sheer exhilarating joy in being alive. - Times OnlineAbout The Author
Alexander Stobbs
Alex was a music scholar at Eton College and took his A levels in 2008. He is now a choral scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, where he is reading music. He lives with his family in Kent and this is his first book.
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