The Skin Above My Knee

Biography & Memoir, Composers & Musicians, Entertainment & Performing Arts
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Author: Marcia Butler ISBN: 9780316392266
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Publication: February 21, 2017
Imprint: Little, Brown and Company Language: English
Author: Marcia Butler
ISBN: 9780316392266
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication: February 21, 2017
Imprint: Little, Brown and Company
Language: English

**One of 2017's 35 over 35
One of the Washington Post's Top 10 Classical Music Moments of the Year

The unflinching story of a professional oboist who finds order and beauty in music as her personal life threatens to destroy her.**

Music was everything for Marcia Butler. Growing up in an emotionally desolate home with an abusive father and a distant mother, she devoted herself to the discipline and rigor of the oboe, and quickly became a young prodigy on the rise in New York City's competitive music scene.

But haunted by troubling childhood memories while balancing the challenges of a busy life as a working musician, Marcia succumbed to dangerous men, drugs and self-destruction. In her darkest moments, she asked the hardest question of all: Could music truly save her life?

A memoir of startling honesty and subtle, profound beauty, The Skin Above My Knee is the story of a woman finding strength in her creative gifts and artistic destiny. Filled with vivid portraits of 1970's New York City, and fascinating insights into the intensity and precision necessary for a career in professional music, this is more than a narrative of a brilliant musician struggling to make it big in the big city. It is the story of a survivor.

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**One of 2017's 35 over 35
One of the Washington Post's Top 10 Classical Music Moments of the Year

The unflinching story of a professional oboist who finds order and beauty in music as her personal life threatens to destroy her.**

Music was everything for Marcia Butler. Growing up in an emotionally desolate home with an abusive father and a distant mother, she devoted herself to the discipline and rigor of the oboe, and quickly became a young prodigy on the rise in New York City's competitive music scene.

But haunted by troubling childhood memories while balancing the challenges of a busy life as a working musician, Marcia succumbed to dangerous men, drugs and self-destruction. In her darkest moments, she asked the hardest question of all: Could music truly save her life?

A memoir of startling honesty and subtle, profound beauty, The Skin Above My Knee is the story of a woman finding strength in her creative gifts and artistic destiny. Filled with vivid portraits of 1970's New York City, and fascinating insights into the intensity and precision necessary for a career in professional music, this is more than a narrative of a brilliant musician struggling to make it big in the big city. It is the story of a survivor.

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