Brother Of The More Famous Jack

Author: Barbara Trapido

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Price : $29.99 AUD
ISBN : 9781620407226
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Imprint : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Weight (g) : 0.249
Publication date : October 2014
Dimensions : 208mm X 140mm X 18mm
Produced in : United States
RRP : 29.99
Availability date : January 2014
Out of print date : January 2020
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Product Type : books

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Author : Barbara Trapido
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Edition : 1
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 823.912
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Library of Con LOCSH : bl2014049256
Pages : 239
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Description

Ask today's favorite novelists what books influenced their writing and you'll hear "Brother of the More Famous Jack "again and again."" Dog-eared copies of this long out-of-print novel are highly prized and shared enthusiastically in literary circles-its return to print is cause for celebration.Stylish, suburban Katherine is eighteen when she is propelled into the heart of Professor Jacob Goldman's rambling home and his large eccentric family. As his enchanting yet sharp-tongued wife, Jane, gives birth to her sixth child, Katherine meets beautiful, sulky Roger and his volatile younger brother, Jonathan. Inevitable heartbreak sends her fleeing to Rome, but ten years later, older and wiser, she returns to find the Goldmans again."Why did it take me so long to discover the singular joys of Barbara Trapido's novels? Why, for so many years, had I missed these witty, soulful, heartbreaking, expansive, brilliant tales? What have I been wasting my time doing? Reading books that AREN'T perfect? Never again! Since finally discovering Trapido in 2012, I have become a literary evangelist on her behalf. On account of my badgering, all my friends now love her, too. I won't rest until everyone in America has read (and fallen in love with) this fabulous author." -Elizabeth Gilbert

Author description

Barbara Trapido was born in South Africa and is the author of seven novels. She lives in Oxford, England.

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The Bundjalung of Byron Bay Arakwal People have lived in the coastal landscape around Byron Bay for at least 22,000 years.We acknowledge and show respect for the original people on the land on which we are based. We respectfully acknowledge the ancient cultural presence in the Australian landscape by First Nation peoples and their ongoing traditional and spiritual custodianship of the marine areas, beaches, bush, rivers, lakes and mountains.