New York:: Viking,, (1999). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First US printing. The author's fifth novel, one which shift from Scotland to Rome, from London to the Cotswolds. It begins with the accidental death of a young woman, an event that touches many lives in sometimes surprising ways, a book both funny and touching. 245 pp.

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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: Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 88654
Title: THE TRAVELLING HORN PLAYER.
Author: Trapido, Barbara
Format/Binding: Hardcover first edition -
Book Condition: New Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Jacket Condition: fine
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0670883573
ISBN 13: 9780670883578
Publisher: Viking,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date Published: (1999)
Bookseller catalogs: Women Authors;

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