by JaniceGalloway (Author)
Janice Galloway's new novel is based on the life of Clara Schumann: celebrated nineteenth-century concert pianist and composer, editor and teacher, friend of Brahms - who was also the wife of Robert Schumann, the mother of his eight children, and the woman who cared for him through a series of crippling mental illnesses. Clara is a lyrical and vibrant account of two remarkable and highly dramatic musical careers, but primarily it is a novel about timeless, common things: about the inescapable influences of childhood, about creativity and marital life, about communication and silence, about how art is made and how art, in turn, may erode or save the life that nourishes it.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06 Mar 2003
ISBN 10: 0099750511
ISBN 13: 9780099750512
Book Overview: 'A gripping narrative - a deeply moving study of love, loss and solitude' Independent on Sunday
Prizes: Shortlisted for Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award 2003 and Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award 2002.