Tunes of Glory Household Ghosts Silence This volume collects three
of the very best works by James Kennaway, the brilliant young
novelist and screenwriter who tragically died in a car crash at the
early age of forty. Memorably filmed with Alec Guinness and John
Mills, Tunes of Glory is a grippingly dramatic exploration of the
glamour and the brutality of post-war army life as the tensions and
conflicts in the officers' mess of a Highland regiment lead to
shame and tragedy. Household Ghosts is a claustrophobic tale of
family tension, love triangles and the persistence of the past-one
of Kennaway's favourite themes. Set in a country house in Scotland
the book is haunted, like the privileged family it describes, by
the ghosts of Scotland's own turbulent history. Taken from
completed drafts on the author's desk, Silence tells of the
accidental meeting and the complex union between a white man and a
black woman in times of racial tension and sexual violence. Set in
a North American city in midwinter Kennaway's last and brilliantly
succinct novel expands into a universal allegory of suffering and
death.
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