Did Gustav Mahler Ski?: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811211635)

After many years in England as a practicing psychologist and published author (specializing in sociolinguistics), Judy Gahagan now makes her fiction debut with Did Gustav Mahler Ski? The twelve stories collected here often revolve around a modern female Quixote's attempt to do battle with the century and reinvent the quotidian. Shrewd and eccentric observers, her characters travel in real and imagined territory. They make their journeys with one eye fixed keenly on the world and the other trained on an often tumultuous inner life. Italy, well-known harbor for escapists and mythmakers, is frequently the background: from the Italian alps where an ill-at-ease and infatuated girl comes upon the house where Mahler wrote "The Song of the Earth" to the deep south where a freewheeler visits her boyfriend's village only to find that neither the place nor the person match her expectations.

Author: Judy Gahagan
ISBN-10: 0811211630
ISBN-13: 9780811211635
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 04/17/1991
Pages: 119
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.33w x 0.37d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/22/1991