Magic Strings of Frankie Presto (Albom) - Book Reviews

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Albom’s The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto hits the right notes. Albom’s love for music is richly apparent...and his maxims about life will no doubt bring readers on a pleasantly sentimental journey about the bandmates in their lives.
USA Today


As always, Albom’s novel has a larger message...and The Magic Strings of Frankie Pesto resonates with a kind of cosmic connection.
Miami New Times


A beautiful story that forces us to think about the concept of a life well lived…. Albom brings his literary magic once again.
Huffington Post


Albom’s fable about the power of song carries you along like a beautiful melody.
People


Within a few pages, you’ll be as delighted with this sparkling book as I was. Start it, stick with it, and you’ll find The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto to be a book of note.
Yankton Daily Press


What an entertainer! Mitch Albom, author, playwright, screenwriter, nationally syndicated columnist—and philanthropist, as his audience learned, was a charmer…. There seemed to be no end to this man’s talents.
NorthJersey.com


Albom...blends the spiritual and the musical to tell the story of Frankie Presto, the greatest guitar player the world has ever heard. Fleeing Spain for America with a battered old guitar, [Presto] moves from the Forties to the Sixties, affecting everyone and transforming a few...
Library Journal


At the funeral of guitar superstar Frankie Presto, who disappeared at the peak of his fame, the Spirit of Music looks back on his life.... [A] sentimental journey that might be a mashup of the lives of shooting stars like Bobby Darin or Ricky Nelson.
Kirkus Reviews