A Passion for Living: The Amazing Story of a Boy Who Makes Every Day Matter
Author(s): Alexander Stobbs
'You can't do stuff if you're afraid' Alex's philosophy set the tone for the critically aclaimed documentary that followed the young music scholar in his final year at Eton as he prepared to conduct the Bach Magnificat. Alex is a musical prodigy and has won numerous awards for his performances, which would be extraordinary for any boy of his age, but in one with a particularly serious form of cystic fibrosis, it is humbling. On a daily cocktail of drugs, Alex lives from goal to goal, determined not to let his disability hold him back. In his own words, Alex now shares his next dream: to conduct the St Matthew Passion in London. His story is brave and inspiring; learning to live in the moment is a lesson for us all.
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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.' -- Independent 'Alex's final thumbs-up as he took his curtain call -- expressed the sheer exhilarating joy in being alive.' -- Times Online
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.
General Fields
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- : Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- : 0.33
- : September 2009
- : 234mm X 153mm X 17mm
- : United Kingdom
- : March 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : Alexander Stobbs
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 780.92
- : 256
- : Biography & autobiography; Composers & musicians; Coping with illness