GRAND OBSESSION

A PIANO ODYSSEY

by PERRI KNIZE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Prelude: From a Tree in the Forest

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Epiphany
A Lesson with Mozart
Piano Lessons
The Piano Party
The Search Begins
Piano World
Piano Row
Meeting Marlene
The Sale
Delivery
The Inspection
The Voicer

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16
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30
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115

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A Piano Education
Beethoven's Warehouse
The Piano Crawl
Tom
Hammers
The Voicers

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157
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III

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The Grotrians
Szott's Secret
The Anthroposophist
Revelation
Physics and Metaphysics
Braunschweig
Austria
Mittenwald
Healing Marlene
Marc's Return

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349

Acknowledgments

369

GRAND OBSESSION

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