{"product_id":"the-shrine-thief-9781949597295","title":"The Shrine Thief","description":"\u003cb\u003eA renowned musician in his 85th year explores the nature of wisdom, how we learn to recognize it, and how we pass it forward.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this entrancing memoir, timeless questions about music and life are explored by a master musician in his 85th year. The stern father who built an empire of words; the solipsistic uncle whose hypnotic voice calmed millions: these are just early glimpses of Mathieu's memory. Soon he is crimped into an overhead baggage rack in Stan Kenton's tour bus as scenes of scotch-soaked melancholy play out below; he is sharing late-night quarts of ice cream with Duke Ellington in his hotel room; he is co-inventing improvisational theater at Chicago's Second City with Alan Arkin and Mike Nichols; he is receiving the title of Sufi sheikh from an heir of Inayat Khan; and he is gleaning wisdom from a woman bundling firewood in Bali. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn prose at once wry and lyrical, Mathieu carries the reader through the adventures and misadventures of a scintillating and deeply examined life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Terra Nova Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/25\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781949597295\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"W. a. Mathieu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42881884061877,"sku":"9781949597295","price":23.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_c87f70eb-d62c-4b4b-8612-09ceb6b27a6c.jpg?v=1685419326","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-shrine-thief-9781949597295","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}