Spare, wry and sometimes biting, the 12 stories in this accomplished debut are narrated from perspectives that, no matter how knowledgeable or observant, remain those of the outsider.

Publishers Weekly

Did Gustav Mahler Ski?

Fiction by Judy Gahagan

After many years in England as a practicing psychologist and published author (specializing in sociolinguistics), Judy Gahagan now makes her fiction debut with Did Gustav Mahler Ski? The twelve stories collected here often revolve around a modern female Quixote’s attempt to do battle with the century and reinvent the quotidian. Shrewd and eccentric observers, her characters travel in real and imagined territory. They make their journeys with one eye fixed keenly on the world and the other trained on an often tumultuous inner life. Italy, well-known harbor for escapists and mythmakers, is frequently the background: from the Italian alps where an ill-at-ease and infatuated girl comes upon the house where Mahler wrote “The Song of the Earth” to the deep south where a freewheeler visits her boyfriend’s village only to find that neither the place nor the person match her expectations.

Paperback(published Apr, 01 1991)

ISBN
9780811211635
Price US
9.95

Clothbound(published Apr, 01 1991)

ISBN
9780811211628
Price US
18.95
Page Count
128

Judy Gahagan

Contemporary American writer, poet, teacher, academic psychologist and musician

Spare, wry and sometimes biting, the 12 stories in this accomplished debut are narrated from perspectives that, no matter how knowledgeable or observant, remain those of the outsider.

Publishers Weekly