The Skin Above My Knee

by Marcia Butler

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316392286
• ISBN13: 9780316392280
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"