Juggling - Softcover

Trapido, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014023604X ISBN 13: 9780140236040

Publisher: Penguin, 1995

Synopsis

Sparky Christina and her gifted adopted sister Pam, forceful, motherless Jago and strangely weightless Peter, coincide to embark on a dazzling series of pairings and partings, outrageous coincidences and eleventh-hour entrances. As Christina analyses the wit, cruelty and crossed genders of Shakespearean comedy, and the juggling feats by which they end so neatly, their own lives are also entering the last act. Jago and Pam, Peter, Christina and her parents, forceful Joe and obliging Alice - along with a long-lost twin, an unfrocked priest, Christina's best friend and Alice's ex-fiance, among others - take the final curtain in some gloriously unexpected couples....

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Review:

'A brilliant book' Mary Wesley, Daily Mail 'She wraps up all the golden threads with dazzling wit ... Think Measure for Measure here and a touch of The Tempest there ... Trapido's pen drips with sensuousness and sexuality' The Times 'She is simply dynamite' Philip Hensher, Guardian 'A work of enormous charm, highly entertaining and told with a deft touch, which handles serious matters lightly and treats light ones with proper respect' Michael Dibdin, Independent on Sunday

About the Author:

Barbara Trapido was born and educated in South Africa and came to London in 1963. She now lives in Oxford with her family.
Her first novel, Brother of the More Famous Jack, was awarded a special prize for fiction at the Whitbread Awards in 1982. Her second, Noah's Ark, was published in 1985, and her third, Temples of Delight, was shortlisted for the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award in 1990. This, her fourth, is a sequel to Temples of Delight.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 014023604X
• ISBN 13: 9780140236040
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320