Janice Galloway

Broschiertes Buch

Clara

Beschreibung

Im Mittelpunkt dieses packenden Romans steht das Leben der Clara Schumann, gefeierte Pianistin, Freundin Brahms und Ehefrau Robert Schumanns. Ein faszinierendes Porträt einer ungewöhnlichen Frau.

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/Allen Lane Book of the Year. Her second novel, Foreign Parts, won the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: PETERSEN, HAMBURG; VINTAGE, LONDON
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 548116
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 202mm x 129mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9780099750512
• ISBN-10: 0099750511
• Artikelnr.: 11642540

Rezensionen

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