Critical Praise

"Penetrating. . . Landis has seamlessly interwoven his text with ideas (about language and music, genius, imagination and the nature of human devotion) that are very much his own. . . . It is almost as if Landis himself were conducting a score, with the two characters his human instruments."

——The New York Times Book Review

"Richly conveys both the joy and the sorrow of [an] extraordinary love story . . . In a lush, sinuous style . . . Landis draws us into a world at once turbulent and dazzling."

——Los Angeles Times

"Witty, precise, rich in historical detail . . . No couple better sums up the brilliance and intensity of the Romantic Age than Robert and Clara Schumann. . . . Landis has a wonderful capacity for writing dialogue that sounds as if it's coming off the top of the characters' heads."

——The Philadelphia Inquirer