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Longing

James David Landis

出版	Harcourt, 2000
主題	Fiction / Thrillers / EspionageFiction / Historical / GeneralFiction / Performing Arts / Music
ISBN	01510045369780151004539
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=zQBbAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

The Romantic era was the cradle for artists who lived life to the fullest and loved without restraint, and Robert Schumann and his wife, Clara, were the epitome of this unbounded period. Robert shocked and confused listeners with music that heralded the beginning of the modern era while he drove both his mind and his body to their limit. Clara was the most acclaimed female pianist of her time-a time that included Liszt, Chopin, Mendelssohn, and later, Brahms, whom Clara and Robert loved more than any other man. With characters of surpassing vitality, Longing delineates the most intimate details of the relationships between men and women with a surpassing precision, sympathy, and wisdom. Combining the dramatic historical narrative of The Alienist with the passionate sensitivity of Possession and the sensual intellectuality of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, it is a consummate achievement of the novelist's art.