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      Clara

      by Janice Galloway
      Published
      Feb 2003
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      432
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      Janice Galloway's new novel is based on the life of Clara Schumann: celebrated nineteenth-century concert pianist and composer, editor and teacher, friend of Brahms - who 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. Clara is a lyrical and vibrant account of two remarkable and highly dramatic musical careers, but primarily it 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.

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      General Fiction

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      Historical

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      May 2003 Vintage (UK) ISBN13 9780099750512 ISBN10 0099750511
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      Feb 2004 Simon & Schuster ISBN13 9780743238533 ISBN10 0743238532
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      First Edition Feb 2003 Simon & Schuster ISBN13 9780684844497 ISBN10 0684844494
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      Jan 2031 Vintage ISBN13 9781446419366 ISBN10 1446419363
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      Jan 2031 Simon & Schuster ISBN10 B007Z4SQO6
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