Chamber music : a novel / by Doris Grumbach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grumbach, Doris.

Contributor:

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musicians' spouses--Fiction.

Musicians' spouses.

Married people--Fiction.

Married people.

Lesbians--Fiction.

Lesbians.

American fiction--20th century.

American fiction.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

253 pages ; 18 cm

Edition:

First Fawcett Crest edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fawcett Crest, 1980

Summary:

"Caroline Maclaren, the ninety-year-old widow of a famous American composer, reaches back into her memories to tell the story of their life together. In setting the stage for her extraordinary tale, she recreates the aura of turn-of-the-century Frankfurt, Boston, and Saratoga Springs and of an age when private passions were hidden below the surfaces of private selves. She recalls her marriage as a sheltered young woman to the brilliantly promising Robert Maclaren, his swift rise to international musical fame, the darker story of his angry silences, and eventually, the grim details of his illness and death. In the final phase of her story she tells of the late-blossoming passion she discovers with Anna, the serene nurse who tended Robert in his dying days, and about the artists' colony they found as a tribute to his life and work."--Goodreads

Local Notes:

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.

ISBN:

0449242714

9780449242711

OCLC:

6248123