The Choir - Hardcover

Trollope, Joanna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679444548 ISBN 13: 9780679444541

Publisher: Random House, 1995

Synopsis

In the gentle precinct of Aldminster Cathedral, crisis loomed.  The urbane and worldly Dean (Purdey guns and the regular arrival of a delivery van from Berry Brothers) wanted nothing so much as to restore and beautify his beloved Cathedral--even if it meant sacrificing the Choir School to pay for it.  Alexander Troy, Headmaster of the school, a conscientious man, somewhat out of his depth with his elusive and poetical wife (once seen walking barefoot in the dew across the Cathedral Close) was determined that nothing and no-one-certainly not the overbearing Dean-should destroy the Choir.

As the rift widened into Machiavellian dimensions, many others found themselves caught in the schism--Leo Beckford, brilliant but wayward organist, repelling the adoration of the Dean's dreadful daughter--the gentle, left-wing Bishop, trying to soothe the angry protagonists--Sally Ashworth, mother of the leading chorister, fighting loneliness and an erring and absent husband.  Each frail and human dilemma took its part in the greater turmoil of Chapter and Close and the final battle for the survival of the Choir.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"One of the most interesting writers to have emerged in the past few years"
-Carla McKay, Daily Mail

"A Modern Barchester Chronicle"
-Sunday Telegraph

"A convincing portrait of a closed society together with its political battles"
-Literary Review

About the Author:

Joanna Trollope is a member of the same family as nineteenth-century English novelist Anthony Trollope.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679444548
• ISBN 13: 9780679444541
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 261