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Feast of July
by
H.E. Bates
Now the basis for a major motion picture from the producers of Howard's End and The Remains of the Day--a brooding, suspenseful novel of sensuality and vengenance, set amid the fields and villages of 19th century England. Bella Ford, jilted by her unscrupulous lover, plans revenge that ends in a catastrophic act of violence.
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
October 3rd 1995
by Vintage
(first published 1954)
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Another stunning novel from master storyteller H.E. Bates. A young woman sets off in search of a lad who's let her pregnant. Journeying across the Midlands in Britain, she loses the child and is taken in by a family of cobblers. Each of the three sons falls in love with her - with dramatic results.
Set at the beginning of the twentieth century, Bates' crackling prose makes a vanished world of factories and mill towns come alive in your mind. You will be rooting for all three sons...more
Set at the beginning of the twentieth century, Bates' crackling prose makes a vanished world of factories and mill towns come alive in your mind. You will be rooting for all three sons...more
The dreary, portentous English countryside makes for good a read in March, most British of months. I enjoy identifying with the attentive yet disoriented heroine; less so with her spooky Fatal Attractionesque determination. She bears a striking semblance to Tess d'Urberville--a parallel which, alongside the narration's frank, rural language and violent horizon, makes good fare for Thomas Hardy-goers and Faulknerites alike.
I recently watched the Masterpiece Theatre presentation of Country Matters and amalgamation of episodes based upon H.E. Bates and A.E. Coppard's short stories which lead me to check out the source materials. This particular version is an abridgment of Bate's novel, but captures his artistry and characterizations.
An English author wrote a very English story of young love and tragedy amidst poor working class surroundings. It was written in 1954 and republished in 1995 as it was well worth resurrecting.
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He was born in Rushden, Northamptonshire, and educated at Kettering Grammar School. After leaving school, he worked as a reporter and a warehouse clerk.
Many of his stories depict life in the rural Midlands of England, particularly his native Northamptonshire. Bates was partial to taking long midnight walks around the Northamptonshire countryside - and this often provided the inspiratio...more
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Many of his stories depict life in the rural Midlands of England, particularly his native Northamptonshire. Bates was partial to taking long midnight walks around the Northamptonshire countryside - and this often provided the inspiratio...more
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