My first novel tells the story of Gustav and Alma Mahler in New York City (1907-1911). Every Mahler biography known to me is written through European eyes and recapitulates Mahler's own ignorance of the New World — of the teeming musical life of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The Marriage is partly conceived as a corrective. It is in fact the first book-length treatment of Mahler in New York ever written.
“The Marriage portrays Mahler with more power and poignancy than anyone else ever has. The writing is so profoundly personal, so searingly intimate, that it is sometimes painful to read.”
— JoAnn Falletta, Music Director, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
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