This book differs from other biographies in its methodology, based on lengthy interviews with Gould's blood relatives and evidence-based scientific analysis of the large body of knowledge about the musician. Topics like "Stage Fright," "The Gould-Steinway Affair," "Love and Sexuality," "The Edward Grieg Myth," and Gould's psychological ties to Bach were analyzed for the first time, providing readers with an in-depth understanding of Gould as an individual, which is the only approach to view him optimally and realistically.

This book really gets into the head, heart and soul of a very unusual man. A musical prodigy at the age of six, a man who always suffered from performance anxiety, had an unusual relationship with his mother, whose first love was a woman he never met, he did have at least one relationship with Cornelia Foss, but for the most part, he was not interested in sex-he was a loner. Glenn Gould was many things to many people, and this book explores all the aspects of his life.

Helen Mesaros' book was over fifteen years in the making, and she had access to the Gould family nannies he had as a child, and Gould's friends, including Robert Fulford and Bob Silverman, Glenn Gould's loyal friend over the last ten years of his life. Helen Mesaros is a psychiatrist and clinical director of CAT out-patient program at Toronto East General Hospital.

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