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Fountain overflows

The first installment of West’s Saga of the Century trilogy—now available as an ebook West’s semi-autobiographical novel introduces the multi-talented Aubrey family as they strive to find their place in the world Papa Aubrey’s wife and twin daughters, Mary and Rose, are piano prodigies, his young son Richard Quin is a lively boy, and his eldest daughter Cordelia is a beautiful and driven young woman with musical aspirations. But the talented and eccentric Aubrey family rarely enjoys a moment of harmony, as its members struggle to overcome the effects of their patriarch’s spendthrift ways. Now they must move so that their father, a noted journalist, can find stable employment. Throughout, it is the Aubreys’ hope that art will save them from the cacophony of a life sliding toward poverty. In this eloquent and winning portrait, West’s compelling characters must uncover their true talent for kindness in order to thrive in the world that exists outside of their life as a family.

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  • "The first installment of West’s Saga of the Century trilogy—now available as an ebook West’s semi-autobiographical novel introduces the multi-talented Aubrey family as they strive to find their place in the world Papa Aubrey’s wife and twin daughters, Mary and Rose, are piano prodigies, his young son Richard Quin is a lively boy, and his eldest daughter Cordelia is a beautiful and driven young woman with musical aspirations. But the talented and eccentric Aubrey family rarely enjoys a moment of harmony, as its members struggle to overcome the effects of their patriarch’s spendthrift ways. Now they must move so that their father, a noted journalist, can find stable employment. Throughout, it is the Aubreys’ hope that art will save them from the cacophony of a life sliding toward poverty. In this eloquent and winning portrait, West’s compelling characters must uncover their true talent for kindness in order to thrive in the world that exists outside of their life as a family."@en
  • "The children of the unstable and eccentric Piers and Clare Aubrey must learn to make do, in a story taking place in the London suburbs in the years leading up to World War One."
  • "The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded by their father's genius for instability, but his new job in the London suburbs promises, for a time at least, reprieve from scandal and the threat of ruin. Mrs. Aubrey, a former concert pianist, struggles to keep the family afloat, but then she is something of a high-strung eccentric herself, as is all too clear to her daughter Rose, through whose loving but sometimes cruel eyes events are seen. Still, living on the edge holds the promise of the unexpected, and the Aubreys, who encounter furious poltergeists, turn up hidden masterpieces, and come to the aid of a murderess, will find that they have adventure to spare. In The Fountain Overflows... Rebecca West transmuted her own volatile childhood into enduring art. This is an unvarnished but affectionate picture of an extraordinary family, in which a remarkable stylist and powerful intelligence surveys the elusive boundaries of childhood and adulthood, freedom and dependency, the ordinary and the occult. --Amazon.com."

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  • "Musical fiction"@en
  • "Musical fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Genres littéraires"
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  • "Electronic books"

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  • "Lähde tulvii : Suomentanut Maija-Liisa Virtanen"
  • "De fontein stroomt over"
  • "The fountain overflows, a novel"
  • "Källan flödar : [roman]"@sv
  • "The Fountain Overflows"
  • "Fountain overflows"@en
  • "The fountain overflows a novel"@en
  • "El manantial se desborda"@es
  • "The fountain overflows : with a new introd. by Victoria Glendinning"
  • "The fountain overflows : [novel]"
  • "Lähde tulvii"@fi
  • "La famille Aubrey"
  • "La Famille Aubrey. [Préface de Harold Nicolson.] Traduit de l'anglais par Anne Marcel"
  • "The fountain overflows [a novel]"@en
  • "The fountain overflows : a novel"@en
  • "The fountain overflows : a novel"
  • "The Fountain overflows"
  • "The Fountain overflows"@en
  • "Källan flödar"
  • "Källan flödar"@sv
  • "The fountain overflows"
  • "The fountain overflows"@en
  • "La Famille Aubrey"
  • "La Famille Aubrey ["The Fountain overflows"]. Préface de Harold Nicolson. Traduit de l'anglais par Anne Marcel"
  • "Kilden flyder over"@da
  • "Kilden flyder over"
  • "La Famille Aubrey : ["the Fountain overflows"]. Traduit de l'anglais par Anne Marcel"

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