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Av H. E. Bates

Bates's third novel features a cast of characters in a shoemaking street very similar to that experienced by Bates in a young boy modeled after Bates's father, Albert Bates, (who started out in the shoe business at the age of ten) and through whom much of the novel is seen; an idle and and drunken shoemaker; a gentle, book and nature-loving socialist shopkeeper; a passionate and idealistic young woman; a hypocritical Baptist baker (see Bates's bake-house memories in Vanished World 69-70); and several wives, either abused and shrewish. A series of episodes depict poverty, hunger, violence, death, and hopelessness and, in doing so, address religious and economic issues and contrast urban and rural life. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

ISBN

0140087737

Författare

H. E. Bates