Publisher's Synopsis
More than 40 years after his premature death the mystique of Mario Lanza continues. He remains a legendary figure a crossover icon embraced and remembered by an entire generation for bridging the gap between popular and classical music the acknowledged inspiration of today's Three Tenors. Bessette tells his story with a novelist's eye for the inherent tragedy of Lanza's brief life the contradictory facets of his personality his passion for life and his self-destructiveness. HARDCOVER.
