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In Trapido's world all is not what it seems, to put it mildly. She is a gifted comic writer because she knows tragedy is just around every corner. Since 1982 and the publication of her Whitbread-winning novel, Brother of the More Famous Jack, her buoyant, allusive roundelays have proved that she has a knack for the ways gifted families work--and the ways they most definitely do not. She is also a brilliant commingler of life and art. Her third novel, Temples of Delight, is an inventive riff on The Magic Flute, while her fourth, Juggling (inexplicably, never published in the U.S.), sets forth a key Trapidian tenet, the superiority of Shakespearean comedy over tragedy: "Survival is admirable. It is more difficult than death, since it takes more energy and guile." The Travelling Hornplayer seems to have been inspired by both Conrad's Heart of Darkness and William Müller's lyrics, "which Schubert, under the cloud of his own recently diagnosed syphilis, managed so brilliantly to layer and elevate into a profound, bombarding symbiosis of love and death." This tantalizing novel is no less layered--though, given her comic genius, elevation isn't exactly Barbara Trapido's style. --Kerry Fried
Her first novel, Brother of the More Famous Jack, one of the most highly acclaimed first novels of the eighties, was awarded a special prize for fiction at the Whitbread Awards in 1982; her second novel was Noah's Ark, published in 1985; while her third, Temples of Delight, to which Juggling, published in 1994, is a sequel, was shortlisted for the 1990 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award. Her most recent book is The Travelling Hornplayer.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This signed First Edition hardback novel was published by Hamish Hamilton in 1998. Barbara Trapido has signed the title page. It will be sent to you in Waterstone's undisturbed shrink-wrapping. The size of the book in inches is 9.5 x 6.3 and the book weighs 0.52 kg. As with all our sales of books within the UK, we only ever charge a flat standard delivery cost of £3.35. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 002761
Book Description Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.15. Seller Inventory # Q-0241136946