A Passion for Living
A Passion for Living: The Amazing Story of a Boy Who Makes Every Day Matter Alexander Stobbs,
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
ISBN: 0340978511
Edition: Hardcover; 2009-09-17
Summary:
Our lives are precious. Never more so than for 19-year-old Alexander
Stobbs who has been a cystic fibrosis sufferer from birth. For him,
each day could be his last. But as he says in the BAFTA-nominated
documentary -- A Boy Called Alex -- 'you can't do stuff if you're
afraid'.A truly inspiring story of a young musician determined to
live his dreams, Alex takes us on his journey to survive a daily
round of drugs and treatments as he also prepares for his yearning
ambition to conduct Bach's three-hour-long St Matthew Passion.
Everything we take for granted is a struggle for Alex -- eating,
sleeping, even breathing. His determination to live life to the full,
constantly striving for perfection in his musical performance, is set
against the exhausting every day rigours of medication and treatment
simply to keep him alive. Yet he has already achieved some
extraordinary goals. An Eton scholar, he has now won a further music
scholarship to King's College, Cambridge. Introduced here by his
mother Suzanne, Alex's account of living with no certainty about his
future is a spur to all of us to make every day count.
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