As Music and Splendour

As Music and Splendour

Anne Enright


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In the last years of the nineteenth century, two young Irish girls from humble backgrounds meet at a convent school in Paris, where they have been sent to train as opera singers. Soon they move on to Rome for advanced instruction, and find themselves happily immersed in a polyglot hothouse of beautiful music and youthful romance. Rose - red-haired, big-hearted and big-voiced - is soon on track to become a prima donna soprano; Clare, also a soprano but with a subtler talent, is more at home with sacred music. As they pursue their careers and their earliest loves - Rose juggling the affections of numerous men, Clare embarking on a passionate love affair with her fellow-student Luisa - the two girls become women in an extraordinary forcing-house of the emotions. As Music and Splendour, Kate O'Brien's astonishing last novel, is a thrillingly readable and romantic story from one of the handful of truly important Irish novelists of the twentieth century.


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In the last years of the nineteenth century, two young Irish girls from humble backgrounds meet at a convent school in Paris, where they have been sent to train as opera singers. Soon they move on to Rome for advanced instruction, and find themselves happily immersed in a polyglot hothouse of beautiful music and youthful romance. Rose - red-haired, big-hearted and big-voiced - is soon on track to become a prima donna soprano; Clare, also a soprano but with a subtler talent, is more at home with sacred music. As they pursue their careers and their earliest loves - Rose juggling the affections of numerous men, Clare embarking on a passionate love affair with her fellow-student Luisa - the two girls become women in an extraordinary forcing-house of the emotions. As Music and Splendour, Kate O'Brien's astonishing last novel, is a thrillingly readable and romantic story from one of the handful of truly important Irish novelists of the twentieth century.



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Anne Enright

Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has published three volumes of stories, one book of nonfiction, and five novels. In 2015, she was named the inaugural Laureate for...


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