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TROLLOPE'S 'CHOIR' FALLS OUT OF HARMONY.(SPOTLIGHT)

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From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
Date: 19960107
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Byline: ALISON ARNETT

The Choir

By Joanna Trollope. Random. 261 pages. $22.

I'm an Anthony Trollope addict. Others read mysteries or beach thrillers to relax; I beach it with the intricacies of 19th-century British politics and social mores. That makes reading The Choir, a novel by his descendant Joanna Trollope an intriguing idea. Maybe Trollope the younger can carry me into the next century.

Trollope has written seven contemporary novels published in Britain. The plot and the characters of The Choir are very British, but appealingly quirky. There's discreet ...

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