Clara
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:6th Mar '03
Should be back in stock very soon
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.
'A gripping narrative - a deeply moving study of love, loss and solitude' Independent on Sunday
Celebrated nineteenth-century concert pianist and composer, editor and teacher, friend of Brahms - Clara Schumann 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.
A lyrical and vibrant account of two remarkable and highly dramatic musical careers, Clara 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.
'Some of the greatest words ever written on thwarted love since Romeo and Juliet' The Times
Some of the greatest words ever written on thwarted love since Romeo and Juliet * The Times *
A powerful novel which brings two troubled and brilliant people back to life * Sunday Telegraph *
A razor-sharp blade of light... This is fiction's raising of Lazarus, miraculous, touched with wonder, grace and utter, steadfast belief in the life being resurrected... A work of intense, unflinching passion and conviction, written with Galloway's heart's blood * The Times *
Janice Galloway's exciting, vibrant third novel proves a virtuoso piece of storytelling...this obvious Booker contender is as compelling as the tormented players and music that inspired it -- Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *
You read Clara and you catch the music of another mind, and wherever it comes from Janice Galloway plays the notes to what sounds very much like perfection. This is a virtuoso performance * Scotsman *
- Short-listed for Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award 2003
- Short-listed for Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award 2002
ISBN: 9780099750512
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 26mm
Weight: 298g
432 pages