Clara (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780743238533)

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).

Author: Janice Galloway
ISBN-10: 0743238532
ISBN-13: 9780743238533
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 02/19/2004
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 02/29/2004 pg. 24