Janice Galloway

Clara

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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.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-09-975051-2
EAN: 9780099750512
Produktnummer: 17609839
Verlag: Vintage Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Seitenangabe: 432 S.
Masse: H20.2 cm x B12.9 cm x D3.2 cm 317 g
Gewicht: 317

Über den Autor

Janice Galloway's first novel, The Trick is to Keep Breathing, now widely regarded as a Scottish contemporary classic, was published in 1990 and won the MIND/Allan Lane Book of the Year. Her second novel, Foreign Parts, won the American Academy of Arts and Letters EM Forster Award while her third, Clara, about the tempestuous life of nineteenth-century pianist Clara Wieck Schumann, won the Saltire Award in 2002. Collaborative texts include an opera with Sally Beamish and three cross-discipline works with Anne Bevan, the Orcadian sculptor. Her 'anti-memoir', This is not about me, was published by Granta in September 2008 to universal critical acclaim. She lives in Lanarkshire