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A Passion for Living

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Description for A Passion for Living Paperback. The inspiring and life-enhancing memoir of the nineteen-year-old cystic fibrosis sufferer who was the subject of two highly-praised Channel 4 documentaries: A Boy Called Alex in 2008 and A Passion for Life in 2009. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: AVH; BGFA; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 174.

Alex Stobbs is determined to make every day count. Despite suffering from cystic fibrosis and enduring a gruelling regime of drugs and treatment, he has already achieved more in his nineteen years than many do in a lifetime. A musical prodigy, he was the subject of the Bafta-nominated documentary, A Boy Called Alex, and millions watched as he achieved his dream - to conduct the Bach Magnificat.Now at university, Alex is preparing for his next challenge: to conduct the three-hour-long St Matthew Passion. Struggling to balance university life with the demands of constant rehearsals, and hospitalised in the last few ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340978535
SKU
V9780340978535
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99-10

About 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.

Reviews for A Passion for Living
PRAISE FOR THE DOCUMENTARY A BOY CALLED ALEX
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[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.
Independent
Alex's final thumbs-up as he took his curtain call - expressed the sheer exhilarating joy in ... Read more

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