As Music and Splendour - Softcover

O'Brien, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844880648 ISBN 13: 9781844880645

Publisher: Penguin, 2005

Synopsis

Set in the 1880s and '90s, As Music and Splendour tells the story of two young Irish girls who are sent to Rome for training as opera singers. Rose - red-haired, big-hearted and big-voiced - is soon on track to become a prima donna soprano; Clare, also a soprano but subtler and less glamorous, is more at home with sacred music. While Rose juggles the affections of various men, Clare embarks on a passionate affair with her fellow-student Luisa. As Music in Splendour is a thrillingly readable and romantic novel from one of the very few truly important Irish novelists of the twentieth century.

About this title

Product Description:

Music And Splendour

About the Author:

Kate O'Brien (1897-1974) was the author of nine novels, two of which - Mary Lavelle (1936) and The Land of Spices (1941) - were banned in Ireland, the latter on the basis of a single suggestive sentence. No other Irish novelist of the century wrote with as much authority and subtlety about women, often without men: at home and abroad, in convents, and sometimes in love.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1844880648
• ISBN 13: 9781844880645
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368