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This novel is one of Anthony Burgess's most accessible and entertaining works. By turns bawdy, raucous, tender and bittersweet, and full of music and songs, this is a warm and affectionate portrait of the working-class Lancashire of the 1920s and 1930s that he knew from his own early life. The Pianoplayers is a funny, moving, autobiographical novel that brings to life the world of silent cinemas and music-halls of 1920s Manchester and Blackpool. Fully annotated and with a new introduction, this is an authoritative text for a new generation of readers. Part of the forthcoming Irwell Edition of…
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12 editions · 4 languages- Hardcover · English · 1988Pianoplayers (Transaction Large Print Books)Isis Large Print Books · 269 pages · 9781850892588
- Paperback · English · 1987Washington Square Press · 9780671637927
- Hardcover · English · 1986Piano PlayersAmereon Limited · 9780848813321
- Other · English · 1987Arrow Books · 9780099525509
- Other · English · 1986Hutchinson · 208 pages · 9780091651909
- Other · English · 1986Arbor House · 208 pages · 9780877958321
Fathers and daughtersSex therapistsPianistsFictionEngland, fictionFathers and daughters, fictionFiction, general