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The Bradshaw Variations
Rachel Cusk
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Description for The Bradshaw Variations
Paperback. Since leaving his job to look after Alexa, his eight-year-old daughter, Thomas Bradshaw has found the structure of his daily piano practice and the study of musical form brings a nourishment to these difficult middle years. His pursuit of a more artistic way of life shocks and irritates his parents and his in-laws. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 208. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Since leaving his job to look after Alexa, his eight-year-old daughter, Thomas Bradshaw has found the structure of his daily piano practice and the study of musical form brings a nourishment to these difficult middle years. His pursuit of a more artistic way of life shocks and irritates his parents and his in-laws. Why has he swapped roles with Tonie Swann, his intense, intellectual wife who has accepted a demanding full-time University job? How can this be good for Alexa and for the family as a whole? Meanwhile Tonie tunes herself out of domestic life, into the ... Read more
Since leaving his job to look after Alexa, his eight-year-old daughter, Thomas Bradshaw has found the structure of his daily piano practice and the study of musical form brings a nourishment to these difficult middle years. His pursuit of a more artistic way of life shocks and irritates his parents and his in-laws. Why has he swapped roles with Tonie Swann, his intense, intellectual wife who has accepted a demanding full-time University job? How can this be good for Alexa and for the family as a whole? Meanwhile Tonie tunes herself out of domestic life, into the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571233618
SKU
KAC0002022
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Ref
99-1
About Rachel Cusk
Rachel Cusk was born in 1967 and is the author of six previous novels, including Saving Agnes, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award, The Country Life, which won a Somerset Maugham Award and Arlington Park, which was shortlisted for the 2007 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. In 2003 she was chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young Novelists. ... Read more
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