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The Travelling Hornplayer (2000)

The Travelling Hornplayer (2000)

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0140281908 (ISBN13: 9780140281903)
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penguin books

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Barbara Trapido is definitely growing on me. Unfortunately, I may have trouble finding any more of her books in my area. That however is why there are used book sites and Interlibrary loan.As soon as I finished Trapido's Temples of Delight, I checked out this novel. I thought the Temples of Delight had an odd plot line, but this story rivals that one. I guessed from the blurb on the cover that the story would have lots of twists and turns. However, I was surprised by the ending. Trapido brought her tale to a close in a way that just left me sitting staring at the page.I read for many different things. I like interesting characters, unusual settings and I like to learn something from the books I read, even from fiction. Trapido has given me all those things in her books and a bit more. Her writing is stunning.I recommend this to others who like books off the beaten path; to readers of British fiction since Trapido is a British author and to those who like surprises.I should mention this is another book that I found because of Shelf Awareness' Book Brahmin column. I will never lack for reading material since I work for a library system, but this column has produced some of my best reading in the last year.

De gedichtenreeks van Wilhelm Müller 'Seventy-seven poems from the posthumous papers of a travelling hornplayer' vormt de basis voor deze roman van Trapido. Daarnaast heeft Trapido voor de roman de gedichtenserie Die schöne Müllerin gebruikt, waarvan de gedichten door Schubert op muziek gezet zijn.Het verhaalHet boek is in twee delen verdeeld, waarin het eerste deel over de levens van de drie hoofdpersonen gaat vóór de dood van Lydia en het tweede deel over hun levens ná de dood van Lydia.Lees meer op mijn leesblog en luister vooral ook naar de linkjes die ik daarin opgenomen heb naar de muziek van Schubert.http://elsjelas.blogspot.com/2011/12/...

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Barbara Trapido's technique is immaculate, her almost classical structures clever, and this entertaining book takes a reader on quite a roller coaster: laughing out loud one moment; edge of tears a paragraph later. More than a modern Austen, I think her tales of upper middle class life make her more of a successor to Wodehouse or maybe Coward. But ... Everyone is perhaps a bit too clever, a bit too talented ... And while I found myself engaging with some of the characters, this was generally not a social milieu I could easily identify with. Might I read another book by her? Maybe? She's undoubtedly a gifted writer. And if not, then the fault is possibly my own, but in all honesty there are other authors who offer more of what I want.
—Ben Ballin

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