Bloomsbury Home
- Home
- FICTION
- General & Literary Fiction
- The Travelling Hornplayer
- Delivery and returns info
-
Free US delivery on orders $35 or over
You must sign in to add this item to your wishlist. Please sign in or create an account
Description
Stunning and difficult, Stella Goldman is programmed for maximum nuisance capacity, but when she discovers both her father's affair and her boyfriend's infidelity on the same day, she flees into the arms of kindly Pen, who speaks as though he's stepped out of Brief Encounter.
Meanwhile, her friend Ellen struggles to come to terms with the death of her sister, Lydia, whose ghost haunts not only her and her father Roland, but the beloved Goldmans (from Brother of the More Famous Jack), too. Along with eccentric professors, wicked monks, and the titular travelling hornplayer, their lives collide in a breathtaking finale.
Product details
Published | Aug 09 2016 |
---|---|
Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 272 |
ISBN | 9781620408735 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury USA |
Dimensions | 8 x 6 inches |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
-
The brilliant [Trapido] . . . is one of the better-kept secrets of contemporary letters . . . [She] is a great novelist; sooner or later the whole reading world will know it.
San Francisco Chronicle
-
Her fans might be forgiven for thinking this writer couldn't get any better. She just has.
The Guardian
-
Murdochian entertainment: a tragicomedy of errors. Trapido . . . races along with a kind of nervy glamour.
The New Yorker
-
Witty . . . moving . . . clever, warm-hearted.
New York Times Book Review