Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido

Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido

"I won't rest until everyone in America has read (and fallen in love with) this fabulous author." --Elizabeth Gilbert

The debut novel that redefined the coming-of-age genre, now with an introduction by New York Times bestselling author Maria Semple.

Stylish, suburban Katherine is just eighteen years old when she is introduced to Professor Jacob Goldman, his rambling home and his large eccentric family, but she is quickly enveloped into their chaotic life. The professor's wife, Jane, becomes Katherine's spiritual mother, but it is his older sons, and particularly the beautiful, sulky Roger, who breaks her heart and sets her on a new path. Fleeing to Rome, Katherine remakes herself, but ten years later, she must return, older and wiser, to face the Goldmans once more.

In this funny and heartwarming novel, Barbara Trapido introduces an unforgettable main character and debuts the witty, compelling voice that authors from Elizabeth Gilbert to Maria Semple and Lauren Groff rave about.

Trapido, Barbara: - 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 Horn Player, and, most recently, Frankie and Stankie (shortlisted for the 1998 Whitbread Novel Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize). She lives in Oxford.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781620407226
ISBN 10	1620407221
Title	Brother of the More Famous Jack
Author	Barbara Trapido
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Year published	2014-11-11
Number of pages	256
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