Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler
New York: Basic Books, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Fine, fresh, like-new copy in fine dust jacket with minor wear to top extremities. Hardcover. 351 pp with appendix and black and white photographs. Born in fin de siècle Vienna, Alma Mahler lived among the extraordinarily talented composers, artists, and innovators who made up the European cultural elite. Drawing on Alma's vivid but largely overlooked diaries, prizewinning biographer Cate Haste recounts the untold and far more sympathetic story of this charismatic and passionate figure, who made her mark by supporting and shaping the art and genius of the famous men who loved her. Fine / fine. Item #E35895
ISBN: 9780465096718
Price: $16.95