The Feast

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Margaret Kennedy, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Cathy (Bookseller) Rentzenbrink
• Collaboration: Margare Kennedy (Editeur), Margaret Kennedy (Editeur)
• Edition: Faber & Faber
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 19.05.2011
• EAN: 9780571278107
• ISBN: 978-0-571-27810-7
• Pages: 352
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Catégorie: Littérature > Littérature (récits)