The life of bold, ambitious, beautiful Alma Schindler reimagined by the author, and narrated in the voice of Alma herself. Called ‘the most beautiful girl in Vienna’, she was muse and wife to the much older composer Gustav Mahler. Fickle as well as passionate, Alma unapologetically moved on to mesmerise and bed many of the artistic geniuses of the day: the writer Franz Werfel; the painters Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoschka and the architect Walter Gropius. Fascinating from beginning to end.
(Sharron Calkins - bwl 110 Autumn 2023 ) |
