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Synopsis
A fictionalised account of the well-known and not so widely known details of the tempestuous and passionate, creative and private life of the internationally acclaimed diva. The soaring heights of her talents, the fears of her decline, written from a psychological, highly controversial perspective.
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Review
Alma Halbert Bond is a retired Freudian psychoanalyst whose love of opera and the fabled soprano Maria Callas led her to write this partly fictionalized psycho-autobiography, in the form of a novel. This is an ambitious psychological look at Callas's life, and Bond's claim to authority is in the analytical end, not the historian's craft, but she has done her homework.
Some intense Callas fans have taken Bond fiercely to task for even daring to write a book dealing with their goddess's motivations and feelings. No one can know what goes on in the mind of another, and this sort of psychological analysis--which does not benefit from any first-hand consultation with its subject--can only be educated guesswork at best. Still, many of Bond's educated guesses make sense and help to fill in the puzzle that was Maria Callas. If the first-person narrative sometimes fails to work as planned, Bond's love of her subject shines through, and fans of the great diva should give this book a try. --Sarah Bryan Miller
About the Author
Alma H. Bond is a psychoanalyst, a member of the International Psychological Association, and a faculty member of the Institute for Psychoanalytical Training & Research. MARIA CALLAS is her seventh book.
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- PublisherBirch Brook Pr
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0913559490
- ISBN 13 9780913559499
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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