Jacqueline du Pre :
Easton, Carol, 1932-
Jacqueline du Pre : a biography / Carol Easton. - Coronet Edition - [S. I.] : Hodder and Stoughton, 1991, ©1989. - 288 p. [8] pages of plates ; ill. ; 18 cm.
"When cellist Jacqueline du Pré died, aged forty-two in 1987, the media had long since turned her into a myth. She as the golden girl with a fairy-tale career and a storybook romance who became a tragic heroine, uncomplaining, courageous and graceful in accepting her fate.
Carol Easton, who knew her well in the last years of her life, has rescued Jacqueline du Pré from the realms of sugared fantasy, for the truth is that away from her cello, she was completely and achingly human. As a child she had been isolated by her phenomenal talent. As an adult she was confined to the rarified concert world. During the last fifteen years she had to live within the steadily shrinking bounds of the invalid.
The true story of her life is as extraordinary as her talent." -- Book cover.
0340520302 9780340520307
Du Pré, Jacqueline, 1945-1987
Cellists--Biography.--England
787.4092 / DUP
Jacqueline du Pre : a biography / Carol Easton. - Coronet Edition - [S. I.] : Hodder and Stoughton, 1991, ©1989. - 288 p. [8] pages of plates ; ill. ; 18 cm.
"When cellist Jacqueline du Pré died, aged forty-two in 1987, the media had long since turned her into a myth. She as the golden girl with a fairy-tale career and a storybook romance who became a tragic heroine, uncomplaining, courageous and graceful in accepting her fate.
Carol Easton, who knew her well in the last years of her life, has rescued Jacqueline du Pré from the realms of sugared fantasy, for the truth is that away from her cello, she was completely and achingly human. As a child she had been isolated by her phenomenal talent. As an adult she was confined to the rarified concert world. During the last fifteen years she had to live within the steadily shrinking bounds of the invalid.
The true story of her life is as extraordinary as her talent." -- Book cover.
0340520302 9780340520307
Du Pré, Jacqueline, 1945-1987
Cellists--Biography.--England
787.4092 / DUP