The Marriage – The Mahlers in New York (A Novel)
Joseph Horowitz
Blackwater Press 225pp (pb) £13.99
What is it, biographical novel or novelised biography? There’s a difference: the first requires leaps of imagination to fill in the gaps at a high literary level, while the second needs responsible scholarship to adapt source material. Which is what Joseph Horowitz does well enough, taking the time of Gustav and Alma Mahler in New York as the cue for a bigger picture