The Travelling Hornplayer
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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.
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Selected as a Radio 4 Good Read by Maggie O'Farrell______________________'Sprinkled with magic' - Sunday Times 'Audacious, energetic and dazzing . There aren't many novelists whose stories one doesn't want to end, but Barbara Trapido is one of them' - Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday______________________Sisters Ellen and Lydia live out an idyllic girlhood in Oxford, their wayward adventures of no concern to their passive, donnish father and their chilly stepmother. Even when Lydia is killed in a car accident, death isn't enough to keep her from her sister, cheerfully returning to haunt her. But Ellen, unwittingly, is herself haunting the lives of those around her: there is Jonathan Goldman, whose flat Lydia is running from when she is knocked down; his daughter Stella, the 'nuisance chip'; and Stella's genius painter-boy lover Izzy. As Trapido's myriad pairings collide, part, and then reunite in breathtaking comedy of manners, The Travelling Hornplayer climaxes in a joyful and unexpected finale.______________________'Reading Barbara Trapido is sheer pleasure' - Independent on Sunday Books of the Year 'This woman is brilliant. And she actually makes you laugh . I enjoyed every page of this book, which is so shimmering with wit, hectic energy and crazy convolutions of plots that I ended up in a state of sublime, satiated exhaustion' - Daily Mail 'She has the mind-teasing skills of a crime-writer combined with a sense of humour as dry as a Martini' - Sunday Telegraph
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Barbara Trapido
- 2009, 288 Seiten, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 0747594724
- ISBN-13: 9780747594727
Sprache:
Englisch
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