Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #774507 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Customer Reviews

emotion is everything
She is looking for the right place in her life. Most of the people are looking for a meaning to live for.
Helene Grimaud wants to capture this feeling with her book. She decided to be in the music. It is her religion to keep on going. The balance lies in the symmetry of life, music and nature. It is her way to cope with her life. In this harmony she finds her relief and strength. She explains her love for the music, witch touches her soul, her love for the animals and her free dealing with nature. These are the real balances in her life.
The book describes her childhood in Aix, her studies at the conservatory in Aix and Paris. In her early years she showed her rebellion behaviour against her parents and her classmates. These examples show her unrestrained nature, her passion for the music and the strength to carry on in her life. For the most people who work with her, this attitude makes her moody and unpredictable. In the last chapter she explains her love for wolfs, her first meeting with Alawas. The early years in America were very difficult. She describes the foundation of the Wolf Conservation Centre.
I read the book with pleasure because the connection between the stories and her musical career is very powerful. This book shares a common feeling. It is to be positive in the things to come and to accomplish your goals what ever it takes.

DISHARMONY
The first pages of this book were promising but soon the style came to seem growingly pretentious and high-faluting. The history of the relationship between man and wolves is fairly interesting, though one has to take the author's word for the facts she puts forward since she does not quote any sources. The sandwiching of wolf chapters and autobiography seemed more and more artificial as the book proceeded.

A must read !
Never mind the literary quality of this memoir, (and it is very well written for that matter), the book was a turning point in my life when I discovered it, by chance, a few years ago, in a bookshop. And I guess I am certainly not the only one that became enthralled by Helene's talent, personality and beauty. With great honesty and in a vivid manner, she described her childhood, her difficult beginning within a formal system, when one is extraodinarily gifted, and of course her encounter with a wolf that led to a life long involvement with the Wolf Center. The book is riveting and the next step is to see Helene in concert of course, an experience that transcends words.
I strongly recommend if you want to discover a fantastic artist, a person that combines talent, brains, love of nature, immense kindness and an unique inside-out beauty. People such as Helene are far too few on this planet to pass them by.