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Amazon Review
In this, the only book about him, Prey, one of Europe's leading classical singers, has done
himself a disservice, presenting himself as a self-absorbed workaholic. This is not a book of
philosophy, insight, or ideas but a flatly written narrative with "laundry lists" of performances,
songs, and famous people interspersed with occasional vignettes of family life (again
centered around himself). Prey's sense of humor surfaces in the book's liveliest anecdote, which
concerns a hilarious dialogue with a bridge worker on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridgea man who
suspects him of being a would-be suicide. Prey devotes two chapers to analysis of favorite
song cycles. Lay readers can skip over technical terms, but the discussions are too brief to
benefit singers much. This book is for fans only. Philippa Kiraly, Cleveland.
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