Barbara Trapido

The Travelling Hornplayer

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Travelling Hornplayer erzählt die Geschichte zweier Schwestern und der verschlungenen Wege ihres Lebens. Liebe, Ehe, Familie, all die Spielstätten der menschlichen (Tragi-)komödie sind vertreten. Mit Gefühl, Charme und einem unverfälschten Sinn für die Missverständnisse des Lebens und ihre mal lustigen, mal tragischen Konsequenzen geschrieben. B Published by the first time by Bloomsbury Pbks alongside her other classic novels / Shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award / These series of books will have linked jackets to create an appealing and magical collection for Trapido fans, whilst being able to stand out distinctly on their own. S Bad, mad, flame-haired cellist Stella, adulterous Jonathan and high-spirited sisters Ellen and Lydia Dent find their fates bound together through love, loss and literature in this dazzling tragicomedy

Produktdetails

• Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Paperbacks / Bloomsbury Trade
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 34167
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 129mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 176g
• ISBN-13: 9780747594727
• ISBN-10: 0747594724
• Artikelnr.: 23840138

Autorenporträt

Barbara Trapido is the author of seven novels including Brother of the More Famous Jack (winner of a Whitbread special prize for fiction), Temples of Delight (shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award), The Travelling Horn Player, and, most recently, Frankie and Stankie (shortlisted for the 1998 Whitbread Novel Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize). She lives in Oxford.

Rezensionen

Pungent with life, with wit, love yearning and grief, The Travelling Hornplayer is Barbara Trapido's most entertaining and powerful novel to date. Her fans might be forgiven for thinking this writer couldn't get any better. She just has GUARDIAN