The Feast (Main)
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- Synopsis
- With a new foreword by Cathy Rentzenbrink, this glorious rediscovered gem exploring the mystery of a buried Cornish hotel will make you nostalgic for 1940s seaside holidays ...'The miniature charm of a Baby Austen.' Observer'Kennedy is not only a romantic but an anarchist.' Anita Brookner'Tense, touching, human, dire, and funny ... A feast indeed.' Elizabeth BowenCornwall, Midsummer 1947. Pendizack Manor Hotel has just been buried in the rubble of a collapsed cliff. Seven guests have perished, but what brought this strange assembly together for a moonlit feast before this Act of God - or Man?Over the week before the landslide, we meet the hotel guests in all their eccentric glory: the selfish aristocrat; slothful hotelier; snooping housekeeper; bereaved couple; bohemian authoress; poverty-stricken children - and as friendships form and romances blossom, sins are revealed, and the cliff cracks widen . . . Both a glorious portrait of seaside holidays in post-war Britain and a wise, witty fable, Margaret Kennedy's The Feast is a banquet indeed.'Aptly named [for] it has Miss Kennedy's narrative skill; her distinction, her grace, above all, her peculiar magic.' Guardian
- Copyright:
- 1950
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 354 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780571367801
- Publisher:
- Faber & Faber
- Date of Addition:
- 05/31/21
- Copyrighted By:
- The Estate of Margaret Kennedy
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers, Outdoors and Nature
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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