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Ecstasy : a novel

Title

Ecstasy : a novel / Mary Sharratt.

Author

Sharratt, Mary, 1964-

Publication

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Description

xi, 387 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"In the glittering hotbed of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Vienna, one woman's life would define and defy an era ... Gustav Klimt gave Alma her first kiss. Gustav Mahler fell in love with her at first sight and proposed only a few weeks later. Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius abandoned all reason to pursue her. Poet and novelist Franz Werfel described her as "one of the very few magical women that exist." But who was this woman who brought these most eminent of men to their knees? In Ecstasy, Mary Sharratt finally gives one of the most controversial and complex women of her time the center stage. 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 brand-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 composer Gustav Mahler, nearly twenty years her senior. He demands that she give up her music as a condition for their marriage. Torn by her love and in awe of his genius, how will she remain true to herself and her artistic passion? Part cautionary tale, part triumph of the feminist spirit, Ecstasy reveals the true Alma Mahler: composer, author, daughter, sister, mother, wife, lover, and muse."--
"A novel of Klimt's muse and Mahler's greatest love: Alma Mahler, the woman whose life would define and defy an era"--

Subject

Genre/Form

Call Number

JFE 18-3024

ISBN

LCCN

2017045483

OCLC

994519761

Author

Sharratt, Mary, 1964- author.

Title

Ecstasy : a novel / Mary Sharratt.

Publisher

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Other Form:

Online version: Sharratt, Mary, 1964- Ecstasy. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018 9780544800922 (DLC) 2017051670

Research Call Number

JFE 18-3024