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As music and splendour - Kate O'Brien

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Title
As music and splendour
Author
Kate O'Brien
format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
UK Publication Date
20050804

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.

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Kate OBrien (18971974) 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.

Type
BOOK
Keyword Index
Sopranos (Singers) - Fiction.|Irish - Italy - Rome - Fiction.|Lesbianism - Fiction.|Rome (Italy) - Social conditions - 19th century - Fiction.
Country of Publication
Ireland
Number of Pages
368

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