Grand Obsession: A Piano Odyssey
Perri Knize was 42 when she became convinced that she should dedicate her life to mastering the piano. It had been some 25 years since she
Grand Obsession: A Piano Odyssey
By Perri Knize
(Scribner, $27.50)
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