Barbara Trapido

Temples of Delight (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Temples of Delight makes you laugh and it moves you' Sunday Times

'A joyous and winking style reliant on coincidence and irony, sparkling sung ... As messy, glorious and strange as life itself' Lauren Groff

Jem is a joyful mystery to Alice: a whirl of glamour, subversion and literary references. And when she disappears from Alice's life, as suddenly as she entered it, Alice is left bereft.

But then she meets Giovanni, presumptuous and hectoring, passionate and beautiful, who leads her back to her childhood friend and the mystery and chaos still surrounding her. Alice finds herself being seduced all over again...

'So readable, so full of incidental pleasures and curiosities ... In her readability, her richness, her plain, clear style, Trapido is quite like what Iris Murdoch is supposed to be' Philip Hensher, Guardian

'Very funny ... fizzes along at a cracking pace' Sunday Telegraph

'As lush and original as it is playful and ironic ... Quirky, wise and warm, full of charm and entirely original' San Francisco Chronicle

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408822753
• Artikelnr.: 38283621

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

As tricky as a master composer, Trapido has taken us on a spiritual journey right through the dark forest of lost friendships and broken hearts, out into the sunshine of renewal LOS ANGELES TIMES