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Brother of the More Famous Jackby Barbara TrapidoISBN 0552990566 (0-552-99056-6)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brother of the More Famous Jack'Book summary:Katherine is offered a place at university to study philosophy by Jacob Goldman. She little expects to find herself in his home and in love with his son Roger. When the affair ends badly, she flees to Rome. She returns ten years later to discover that their lives are inextricably bound. [via]
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Frankie and Stankieby Barbara TrapidoISBN 074756034X (0-7475-6034-X)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frankie and Stankie'Book summary:Dinah and her sister Lisa are growing up in 1950's South Africa, where racial laws are tightening. They are two little girls from a dissenting liberal family. Big sister Lisa is strong and sensible, while Dinah is weedy and arty. At school, the sadistic Mrs Vaughan-Jones is providing instruction in mental arithmetic and racial prejudice. And then there's the puzzle of lunch break. 'Would you rather have a native girl or a koelie to make your sandwiches?' a first-year classmate asks. But Dinah doesn't know the answer, because it's her dad who makes her sandwiches. As the apparatus of repression rolls on, Dinah finds her own way, escaping into rewarding friendships. Then there's the minefield of boys and university and finally, there's marriage and voluntary exile in London. As we follow Dinah's journey through childhood and adolescence, we enter into one of the darker passages of twentieth-century history. Balancing darkness and light with marvellous dexterity, this is Barbara Trapido at the top of her form - vibrant, profound and, as always, irresistible. [via]
Having Sex with Stravinskyby Barbara TrapidoISBN 0140282238 (0-14-028223-8)
Hardcover, Northwestern University Press
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Jugglingby Barbara TrapidoISBN 0140250867 (0-14-025086-7)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Noah's Arcby Barbara TrapidoISBN 0552991309 (0-552-99130-9)
Softcover, Transworld Publishers Limited
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Noah's Arkby Barbara TrapidoISBN 0517672065 (0-517-67206-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Posthumous Papers of a Travellingby Barbara TrapidoISBN 0241136946 (0-241-13694-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Posthumous Papers of a Travelling'Book summary:Twined around Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin (which her mathematician father often sang), award-winning novelist Barbara Trapido's fifth book unravels the interconnected histories of Ellen, Jonathan and Stella and their friends, lovers and relations. Part Bildungsroman, part La Ronde, the novel's focal point is the moment when Ellen's younger sister Lydia is run over and killed outside novelist Jonathan Goldman's London flat.
Ellen and Lydia--or, to their headmaster father, "Gigglers One and Two"--were as close as sisters could be. They read romantic novels and giggled, talked about sex in front of their tiny stepmother and giggled, and helped Lydia's godmother make carrot cake for Jonathan, aka "The Novelist" and giggled. Then Lydia is killed. And Ellen stops giggling. She returns to Edinburgh University to discover her flatmates gone, leaving only a copy of Heart of Darkness and a drawing in lieu of money for the gas bill.
Rich and kindly Pen, older than his 23 years, and the madly talented artist Izzy have graduated. But what's happened to Stella, the obsessive and naive red-headed cellist?
Starring an array of attractive eccentrics, riven with elegant coincidence, and culminating in an utterly theatrical denouement, Trapido's fable of love and loss, families and loneliness, sex and religion, is romantic as Schubert, clever as an Oxford mathematician and heartbreaking as anything. --Lisa Gee [via]
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Stories of the Old Southby Barbara TrapidoISBN 0140997032 (0-14-099703-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Temples of Delightby Barbara TrapidoISBN 0140159533 (0-14-015953-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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The Travelling Hornplayerby Barbara TrapidoISBN 0140260137 (0-14-026013-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Travelling Hornplayer'Book summary:Twined around Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin (which her mathematician father often sang), award-winning novelist Barbara Trapido's fifth book unravels the interconnected histories of Ellen, Jonathan and Stella and their friends, lovers and relations. Part Bildungsroman, part La Ronde, the novel's focal point is the moment when Ellen's younger sister Lydia is run over and killed outside novelist Jonathan Goldman's London flat.
Ellen and Lydia--or, to their headmaster father, "Gigglers One and Two"--were as close as sisters could be. They read romantic novels and giggled, talked about sex in front of their tiny stepmother and giggled, and helped Lydia's godmother make carrot cake for Jonathan, aka "The Novelist" and giggled. Then Lydia is killed. And Ellen stops giggling. She returns to Edinburgh University to discover her flatmates gone, leaving only a copy of Heart of Darkness and a drawing in lieu of money for the gas bill.
Rich and kindly Pen, older than his 23 years, and the madly talented artist Izzy have graduated. But what's happened to Stella, the obsessive and naive red-headed cellist?
Starring an array of attractive eccentrics, riven with elegant coincidence, and culminating in an utterly theatrical denouement, Trapido's fable of love and loss, families and loneliness, sex and religion, is romantic as Schubert, clever as an Oxford mathematician and heartbreaking as anything. --Lisa Gee [via]
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