The Travelling Hornplayer

Author : Barbara Trapido
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620408791
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Travelling Hornplayer written by Barbara Trapido and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Barbara Trapido
Publisher : Bloomsbury Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780747594727
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Travelling Hornplayer written by Barbara Trapido and published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks. This book was released on 2009 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lydia is killed in a car accident, but she returns to her bereft sister as a benign ghost who, nonetheless, comes to haunt the lives of those around her in unexpected ways- Jonathan Goldman, whose flat Lydia is running from when she is knocked down; his daughter Stella, who has discovered that her father has been having an affair with the gladiatorial Sonia; Stella's genius painter-boy lover Izzy, whom she leaves behind as she flees to the arms of kindly Peregrine. Along with good stepmothers, bad mothers, strange professors and wicked monks, their lives collide in a breathtaking finale.

Author : Barbara Trapido
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620408775
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Temples of Delight written by Barbara Trapido and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jem McCrail is a fantastical godsend to the timid young Alice Pilling. "Like a dropped acorn,†? she appears halfway through the week, halfway through the term, and halfway through Miss Aldridge's Silent Reading Hour. Through the doorway she barely clears, wearing clothes like the urchin she encountered in her favorite P. G. Wodehouse story, Jem leads the stammering Alice into a world of culture, truancy, and bizarrerie-a world far beyond the dull lessons of school. The girls cultivate a steadfast bond based on a wicked and encircling sense of humor, an impish joy in indelicate literature, and Mozart's The Magic Flute. Then, as abruptly as she came, Jem disappears. The years and schools that follow, as well as the lovers, do not dim the image of the wondrous Jem. The disheartened Alice is almost ready to settle into an ordinary life when an accident and the intervention of a latter-day fallen angel impel her to go on one more wild and extravagant journey. Like the opera it echoes, the result is pure enchantment. "Why did it take me so long to discover the singular joys of Barbara Trapido's novels? Why, for so many years, had I missed these witty, soulful, heartbreaking, expansive, brilliant tales? I have become a literary evangelist on her behalf. On account of my badgering, all my friends now love her, too.I won't rest until everyone in America has read (and fallen in love with) this fabulous author.†? -Elizabeth Gilbert

Author : Barbara Trapido
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0747599580
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brother of the More Famous Jack written by Barbara Trapido and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stylish, suburban Katherine is eighteen when she is propelled into the centre of Professor Jacob Goldman's rambling home and his large eccentric family. As his enchanting yet sharp-tongued wife Jane gives birth to her sixth child, Katherine meets the volatile, stroppy Jonathan and his older, more beautiful brother Roger, who wins her heart. First love quickly leads to heartbreak and sends her fleeing to Rome but, ten years on, she returns to find the Goldmans again. A little wiser and a lot more grown-up, Katherine faces her future. Brother of the More Famous Jack is Barbara Trapido's highly acclaimed and much loved debut; a book that redefined the coming-of-age novel.

Author : Barbara Trapido
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620408813
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frankie & Stankie written by Barbara Trapido and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dinah and her sister Lisa are growing up in 1950s 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. As we follow her journey through childhood and adolescence, we enter into one of the darker passages of twentieth-century history.

Author : Barbara Trapido
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620408805
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex and Stravinsky written by Barbara Trapido and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant Australian Caroline can command everyone except her own ghoulish mother, which means that things aren't easy for Josh and Zoe, her husband with Stravinsky-glasses and twelve-year-old daughter. Zoe reads girls' ballet books and longs for lessons; a thing denied her until a chance encounter on a school French exchange. Meanwhile, on the east coast of Africa, Hattie, Josh's first love, now writes girls' ballet books when she can carve out time when she isn't caring for her husband and her crosspatch daughter. From far and wide, they are all drawn together: a masquerade in which things are not always what they seem. Elizabeth Gilbert on Barbara Trapido: "Why did it take me so long to discover the singular joys of Barbara Trapido's novels? Why, for so many years, had I missed these witty, soulful, heartbreaking, expansive, brilliant tales? I have become a literary evangelist on her behalf. On account of my badgering, all my friends now love her, too. I won't rest until everyone in America has read (and fallen in love with) this fabulous author." --Elizabeth Gilbert

Author : Barry Sonnenfeld
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316415634
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother written by Barry Sonnenfeld and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **A New York Times Editor's Choice selection!** This outrageous and hilarious memoir follows a film and television director’s life, from his idiosyncratic upbringing to his unexpected career as the director behind such huge film franchises as The Addams Family and Men in Black. Barry Sonnenfeld's philosophy is, "Regret the Past. Fear the Present. Dread the Future." Told in his unmistakable voice, Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother is a laugh-out-loud memoir about coming of age. Constantly threatened with suicide by his over-protective mother, disillusioned by the father he worshiped, and abused by a demonic relative, Sonnenfeld somehow went on to become one of Hollywood's most successful producers and directors. Written with poignant insight and real-life irony, the book follows Sonnenfeld from childhood as a French horn player through graduate film school at NYU, where he developed his talent for cinematography. His first job after graduating was shooting nine feature length pornos in nine days. From that humble entrée, he went on to form a friendship with the Coen Brothers, launching his career shooting their first three films. Though Sonnenfeld had no ambition to direct, Scott Rudin convinced him to be the director of The Addams Family. It was a successful career move. He went on to direct many more films and television shows. Will Smith once joked that he wanted to take Sonnenfeld to Philadelphia public schools and say, "If this guy could end up as a successful film director on big budget films, anyone can." This book is a fascinating and hilarious roadmap for anyone who thinks they can't succeed in life because of a rough beginning.

Author : Caridad Ferrer
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1429925744
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the Stars Go Blue written by Caridad Ferrer and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of an International Latino Book Award A dancer driven to succeed. A musical prodigy attempting to escape his past. The summer they share. And the moment it all goes wrong. Dance is Soledad Reyes's life. About to graduate from Miami's Biscayne High School for the Performing Arts, she plans on spending her last summer at home teaching in a dance studio, saving money, and eventually auditioning for dance companies. That is, until fate intervenes in the form of fellow student Jonathan Crandall who has what sounds like an outrageous proposition: Forget teaching. Why not spend the summer performing in the intense environment of the competitive drum and bugle corps? The corps is going to be performing Carmen, and the opportunity to portray the character of the sultry gypsy proves too tempting for Soledad to pass up, as well as the opportunity to spend more time with Jonathan, who intrigues her in a way no boy ever has before. But in an uncanny echo of the story they perform every evening, an unexpected competitor for Soledad's affections appears: Taz, a member of an all-star Spanish soccer team. One explosive encounter later Soledad finds not only her relationship with Jonathan threatened, but her entire future as a professional dancer.

Author : Mohit Kumar Ray
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176255981
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Widening Horizons written by Mohit Kumar Ray and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2005 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mohit K. Ray, b.1940, former Professor of English, Burdwan University; contributed articles.

Author : David Lee Roth
Publisher : Ebury Press
ISBN 13 : 9780091874803
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crazy from the Heat written by David Lee Roth and published by Ebury Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the late-seventies and eighties, Van Halen were the archetypal American rock group. Whats more they were also the highest paid band in the history of show business, taking a cool $1 million for a night's work at a festival in 1983 and making the Guinness Book of Records. This autobiography tells their story.