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One Tough Teacher and the Gift of Great Expectations
Hyperion
October 2013
On Sale: October 1, 2013
352 pages
ISBN: 1401324665
EAN: 9781401324667
Kindle: B009R9RRC4
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Non-Fiction
THE FINE ART OF TOUGH LOVE.
If
you're lucky, somewhere in your past is that one person who
changed your life forever. The one who pushed you to dream
bigger and to reach higher, and who set you straight on what
matters in life. Perhaps it was a coach, or a professor, or
a family friend.
For Joanne Lipman and Melanie
Kupchynsky, that person was a public-school music teacher,
Jerry Kupchynsky, known as Mr. K--a Ukrainian-born
taskmaster who yelled and stomped and screamed, and who
drove his students harder than anyone had ever driven them
before. Through sheer force of will, he made them better
than they had any right to be.
Strings
Attached tells the inspiring, poignant, and powerful
story of this remarkable man, whose life seemed to conspire
against him at every turn and yet who was able to transform
his own heartache into triumph for his
students.
Lyrically recounted by two former
students--acclaimed journalist Joanne Lipman and Mr. K's
daughter, Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist Melanie
Kupchynsky--Strings Attached takes you on a journey
that spans from his days as a forced Nazi laborer and his
later home life as a husband to an invalid wife, to his
heart-breaking search for his missing daughter, Melanie's
sister.
This is an unforgettable tale--a captivating
narrative that is as absorbing as fiction--about the power
of a great teacher, but also about the legacy that remains
long after the last note has faded into silence: lessons in
resilience, excellence, and tough love.
Strings
Attached is for anyone indebted to a mentor and for
those devoted to igniting excellence in others.
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