Carson’s autobiography doesn’t include many of the usual details about school or friendships with peers, but she talks about food a lot. And she talks about music. “My childhood was not lonely,” she writes in Illumination, “because when I was five years old in 1922, my Daddy bought a piano.”
Mick Kelly in The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, loves music, listens outside window to neighbors’ radio; dreams of learning to play piano
