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The Hard Bargain

Music, Medicine, and My Father Richard Tucker, Opera Legend

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The Hard Bargain

By: David Tucker, Burton Spivak
Narrated by: Tom Bauer
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The Hard Bargain describes in vivid detail and elegant prose the clash of wills between a famous father and his hard-driving middle son. Richard Tucker, the American superstar tenor from the golden age of the Metropolitan Opera, demanded that his son become a surgeon. Rejecting his fathers wishes, David wanted to follow his father onto the opera stage.

Their struggle over Davids future - by turns hilarious and humiliating, wise and loving - is played out in medical and musical venues around the world. The father and son strike a bargain, the hard bargain of the title, which permitted both dreams to flicker for a decade until one (the right one, it turns out) bursts into sustaining flame.

This heartfelt memoir about a son's struggle against the looming power of a magnetic father is conveyed in a moving narrative that one reviewer has called the most dramatic exploration of the private life of a legendary singer in the annals of opera literature.

Visit the Tucker and Spivak website, thehardbargainbook.com, for more information.

©2018 David Tucker and Burton Spivak (P)2019 David Tucker and Burton Spivak
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