Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah PB_Gift_Guide INFINITY IS ONLY THE BEGINNING

INFINITY IS ONLY THE BEGINNING

All was not well

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and former publisher of The Wall Street Journal Karen Elliott House has an unprecedented knowledge of life inside this shrouded kingdom

everyone on the planet was going through the same thing at the same time

The Thrashers had me holding my breath

Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah PB_Gift_Guide INFINITY IS ONLY THE BEGINNINGNEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE From the bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, the moving untold story of the eighteenth century men and women behind the making of Handels Messiah. A work of vivid social and cultural commentary, it functions also as an in depth study of artistic creation, how Messiah came to be, but also of the unstoppable spigot that was Handels musical