Chamber Music Author:Doris Grumbach 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 surfa... more »ces of public 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.« less
This is the second Grumbach book I've read. It's good, but not great to me. It's her style more than the content that doesn't appeal to me. That may be an influence of the time when it was written. I don't think I would read it a second time.