Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. We have three aspiring concert pianists-Glenn Gould (drawn from real life), an Austrian pianist named Wertheimer (the notional protagonist) and the unnamed narrator-who become friends in 1953 in Salzburg while studying piano with the great Horowitz. They love winning so much that they find new ways to do it: Who can hit the telephone pole with a stone? For the first several years they have been home babies -- Zinkoff and the others -- fenced in by walls and backyard chain-link and, mostly, by the sound of Mother's voice.

Or it's winter and you sled to the bottom of Halftank Hill, and you're trudging back up and there he goes zipping down, his arms out like a swan diver, screaming his head off. En un primer momento todo va bien, los alces se adaptan estupendamente a su nuevo hogar, pero pasado un tiempo los alces empiezan a morir uno a uno. Los tres son buenos, pero uno de ellos brilla con luz propia, así que, incapaces de enfrentarse a la idea de no poder superarle, de no ser los mejores, los otros dos abandonan su carrera como pianistas. The Loser is one long, disoriented, languid musings by an unnamed narrator, who was a fellow student with Gould and Wertheimer at a class taught by Vladimir Horowitz. And thus the narrator unburdens himself in knowing that there is nothing he could have done to avoid the suicide.The town of Salzburg, which today is freshly painted in even its darkest corners and is even more disgusting than it was twenty-eight years ago was and is antagonistic to everything of value in a human being, and in time destroys it. Allí rememora la pasión que ambos compartían por el piano, y la turbia amistad que los unió, trastocada al conocer al virtuoso Glenn Gould. Told in words and pictures, Barry’s way of telling the story of how he survives in school and in life is a triumph of how a cool kid can outsmart the bullies. No hay nada de admirable en ellos, y tampoco se puede decir que sean unos perdedores; sencillamente se trata de seres tan limitados por sus miedos y sus obsesiones que su única alternativa es el desastre.

From renowned Newbery-winning author Jerry Spinelli comes a powerful story about how not fitting in just might lead to an incredible life. Once again, Newbery Medal-winning author Jerry Spinelli uses great wit and humor to create the unique story of Zinkoff as he travels from first through sixth grades.

He never finds a new direction to his life and spends years writing an rewriting and essay on Gould.

If a refund is payable to you we will process the refund as soon as possible, and, in any case within fourteen (14) days. El texto es, en realidad, un prolongado monólogo jalonado de digresiones, una reflexión espontánea y desordenada acerca de la creación artística y su inutilidad, las limitaciones del ser humano, la frustración, el fracaso y, en última instancia, la locura y la muerte. Doesn't know he's supposed to look down at his shoes or up at the sky and wish he could disappear, because that's what he is, a leftover, the last kid left. Glenn Gould è tutto ciò che Wertheimer non è, e Wertheimer è un soccombente, un uomo da vicolo cieco, un uomo destinato al fallimento e all’infelicità. Bernhard's satirical narrators are against everything: especially mountains, in this case the Alps, nature, people, society, art, any and all institutions, the church, the state, you name it.

Full details of your rights under the Distance Selling Regulations are available in the UK from your local Citizens' Advice Bureau or your Local Authority's Trading Standards Office. In the final scene Donald wants to play ball with a group of his classmates, and is the last kid to be chosen for a team. He graduated from art school with first class honours (the best you can get) and is the author of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize-winning and bestselling BARRY LOSER series and the Lollies Award-winning FUTURE RATBOY series. But horrible things are afoot at Pirate Camp – it’s been taken over by the villainous Morag, and now its future’s in doubt.

In most of his fictions—including this novella—the Austrian Thomas Bernhard insults everything Austrian. The frustration of recognizing his worthlessness and knowing that he will never be able to reach the top leads him to give up his piano career. El virtuoso, el intérprete que maravilla al mundo, no corre mejor suerte: obsesionado con la idea de ser un mero vehículo entre Bach y el piano, su don le tortura tanto como a sus dos compañeros de estudios.Donald Zinkoff can't sit still, can't stop laughing, falls over his own feet, adores school and silly words and his family, is prone to throwing up due to a defective stomach valve, is impervious to peer pressure, and never frets about being perennially last in any competition just as he's last in the alphabet. Following Zinkoff from his very first foray into the front yard to middle-school sixth grade, the author of Crash (1996) and Stargirl (2000) once again provides such a steady look at a marginalized child that readers will see past limiting social categories or awkward outsides to the complex mix of past, present, and promise at the core of every individual.