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Ecstasy : a novel

Summary: Coming of age in the midst of a creative and cultural whirlwind, young, beautiful Alma Schindler yearns to make her mark as a composer. A new era of possibility for women is dawning, and she is determined to make the most of it. But Alma loses her heart to the great compose Gustav Mahler, nearly twenty years her senior. He demands that she give up her music as a condition of their marriage. Torn by her love and in awe of his genius, how will she remain true to herself and her artistic passion?

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  • ISBN: 9780544800892 (hardcover) :
  • Physical Description: xi, 387 pages ; 24 cm
    regular print
    print
  • Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
Subject: Mahler, Alma -- 1879-1964 -- Fiction
Mahler, Gustav -- 1860-1911 -- Fiction
Composers' spouses -- Fiction
Composers -- Fiction
Vienna (Austria) -- Fiction
Genre: Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.

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Summary: Coming of age in the midst of a creative and cultural whirlwind, young, beautiful Alma Schindler yearns to make her mark as a composer. A new era of possibility for women is dawning, and she is determined to make the most of it. But Alma loses her heart to the great compose Gustav Mahler, nearly twenty years her senior. He demands that she give up her music as a condition of their marriage. Torn by her love and in awe of his genius, how will she remain true to herself and her artistic passion?

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