The feast - Couverture rigide

M Kennedy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0392002000 ISBN 13 : 9780392002004

Editeur : Cassell, 1950

Synopsis

Book by Kennedy Margaret

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The germ of the idea for The Feast - Margaret Kennedy's ninth novel and perhaps her most ingenious, first published in 1950 - came to the author in 1937 when she and a social gathering of literary friends were discussing the Medieval Masque of the Seven Deadly Sins. The talk turned excitedly to the notion that a collection of stories might be fashioned from seven different authors, each re-imagining one of the Sins through the medium of a modern-day character. That notion fell away, but something more considerable stayed in Margaret Kennedy's mind over the next ten years, and so she conceived of a story that would gather the Sins all under the roof of a Cornish seaside hotel managed by the unhappy wife of Sloth . . . Among The Feast's entertaining cast of characters are a clergyman, a gaggle of adolescents and children, a quarter of lovers, and a clutch of frustrated husbands & wives - all serving Kennedy's dark and witty moral fable, which bears out the Biblical adage that many are called but only a very few chosen.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cassell
• Date d'édition: 1950
• ISBN 10: 0392002000
• ISBN 13: 9780392002004
• Reliure: Relié