| Clara S&s Trade Pbk Edition Contributor(s): Galloway, Janice (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743238532 ISBN-13: 9780743238533 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $25.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2004 Annotation: The national bestselling "Clara" finds prize-winning novelist Galloway exploring the fertile conflux of love and music in the partnership of Robert and Clara Schumann. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (1.15 lbs) 448 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With some of the greatest words ever written on thwarted love since Romeo and Juliet (The Times, London), Clara reignites, from between the lines of history, the great love of Robert and Clara Schumann. This impassioned novel gives voice to Clara Wieck Schumann, one of the most celebrated pianists of the nineteenth century, who today is best remembered not for her music but for her marriage. How often you must purchase my songs with invisibility and silence, little Clara, says Robert, and, for Clara, the price of his love is dear. Shrouded in alternate layers of music and silence, the Schumann union was anything but a lullaby, marked by her valiant struggle for self-expression and his tortuous descent into madness. With Clara, a deeply moving fugue of love, solitude, and artistic creation, Janice Galloway has taken a melodic line and scored it for an orchestra (The New York Times Book Review |