Books by Herbert Breslin, Anne Midgette

Herbert Breslin and Anne Midgette, The King and I: The Uncensored Tale of Luciano Pavarotti’s Rise to Fame by his Manager, Friend, and Sometime Adversary .  Usually people tell me books like this are “delightful,” and then they bore me to tears.  This one actually is fantastically fun.  “To tell the truth, though, Luciano didn’t care about the money at the beginning.  In the early years, he never asked me how much he was going to get paid for a recital.  He had only one condition: it had to be s...