Sex and Stravinsky by Barbara Trapido

Sex and Stravinsky by Barbara Trapido

The time is 1995, but everybody is linked by their past. Brilliant Australian Caroline can command everyone except her own ghoulish mother, which means that things aren't easy for Josh and Zoe, her husband and twelve-year-old daughter. Josh has bizarre origins in a South African mining town, but now teaches mime in Bristol. Zoe reads girls' ballet books and longs for ballet lessons; a thing denied her until, on a school French exchange, she meets a runaway boy in a woodland hut. Meanwhile, on the east coast of Africa, Hattie Thomas, Josh's first love, has taken to writing girls' ballet books from the turret of her fabulous house - that's when she can carve out the space between the forceful presence of Herman and her crosspatch daughter Cat who, after some illicit snooping, is secretly planning a make-or-break essay on mask dancers in Mali. Hattie wakes from a dream of Stravinsky's Pulcinella and asks herself about the composer, 'Do his glasses look sexy?' His glasses are just like Josh's glasses from two decades earlier. From far and wide, they are all drawn together; drawn to Jack's place. Or is he Jacques? Or Giacomo? Beautiful, mysterious Jack, the one-time backyard housemaid's child who, having journeyed via Mozambique and Senegal to Milan, is back exactly where he started - only not for long. In its mix of people from different spheres, the book throws up the complexity, cruelty and richness of the global world while, as a sequence of personal stories, it comes together like a dance; a masquerade in which things are not always what they seem.

'Her readers hold her in desperate affection and her fiction inspires an almost compulsive desire to share.. A seductive writer' Libby Brooks, Guardian 'Her fiction snares from the first page, its plot machinations skilfully veiling a darker pulse' Joanna Briscoe 'Barbara Trapido's writing is so sparklingly clear and witty that it can be a shock to realise how strong an undertow runs beneath the surface' Helen Dunmore 'I love Barbara Trapido and I adore her books' Carol Shields

Barbara Trapido is the author of seven novels including Brother of the More Famous Jack (winner of a Whitbread special prize for fiction), Temples of Delight (shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award), The Travelling Hornplayer (shortlisted for the 1998 Whitbread Novel Award), and, most recently, Frankie and Stankie (shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize). She lives in Oxford.

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ISBN 13	9781408802328
ISBN 10	1408802325
Titre	Sex and Stravinsky
Auteur	Barbara Trapido
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Type de reliure	Hardback
Éditeur	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Année de publication	2010-05-03
Nombre de pages	320
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