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Clara

ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9780743238533

RRP: £18.99

PAGES: 400

PUBLICATION DATE:
February 19, 2004

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Clara

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).

Reviews of Clara

The Washington Post A moving portrait of an artist struggling to balance her extraordinary talent with the demands of daughterhood and duty, motherhood and marriage, a juggling act still relevant to the lives of women today.

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