01129cam a2200277 4500 268503738 TxAuBib 20080605120000.0 071109s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2007046314 9780399155062 0399155066 (OCoLC)181424092 DLC DLC BAKER YDXCP UPZ JWL TxAuBib Lopez, Steve. The soloist : a lost dream, an unlikely friendship, and the redemptive power of music / Steve Lopez. New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2008. ix, 273 p. ; 24 cm. The true story of Nathaniel Ayers, a musician who becomes schizophrenic and homeless, and his friendship with Steve Lopez, the Los Angeles columnist who discovers and writes about him in the newspaper. 20080605. Ayers, Nathaniel Anthony. Violinists California Biography. Homeless persons California Los Angeles. Skid row California Los Angeles. TXEDR