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CLARA
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| By: |
Janice Galloway |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0099750511 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780099750512 |
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| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2003 |
| Pages: |
432 |
| Description: |
Based on the life of Clara Schumann, this novel considers the place of love in a life of increasing isolation and alienation. Clara, herself a celebrated pianist, composer and teacher, was the wife of Robert Schumann, and cared for him through a series of crippling mental illnesses. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award 2003
Short-listed for Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award 2002 |
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