(London: Hamish Hamilton, 1998). 8vo; original black boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (x) + 245. Very good condition; lower panel of dustwrapper slightly rubbed; spine a little cocked; previous owner's name and penned code on front free endpaper. "Shifting from Worcestershire to Rome, from Edinburgh to Northumberland, from London to the Cotswolds, The Travelling Hornplayer is peopled with characters whose lives become twisted together through bonds of passion, friendship and bereavement. In this fable of love and loss, marriage and music, award-winning author Barbara Trapido weaves a powerful tragi-comic story that moves towards a breath-taking denouement." .

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Barbara Trapido was born and educated in South Africa and moved to London in 1963. She now lives in Oxford with her family. 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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Bookseller: Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 3381
Title: The Travelling Hornplayer
Author: Trapido, Barbara
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1998)
Keywords: Modern First Editions. Barbara Trapido. South African writers. Modern First Editions
Bookseller catalogs: Modern first editions;

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