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Traveling north from London to stay with relatives after his mother's accident, twelve-year-old Peter meets a strange man with whom he journeys back five hundred years to a performance of religious plays in which the youth's role determines the fate of those around him.
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Praise for Dennis Hamley and Pageants of Despair
"The history is fascinating...Hamley has hit on the right road back to such lace-edged, antique virtues as honesty, gentleness, vision, and love."—Best Sellers
"The ancient tussle between God and the Devil seems to lie at the heart of this tale of sinister skullduggery in the Middle Ages. A good deal of background information on the Mystery Plays and extracts from some of the performances crystallise the setting; the atmosphere of religious superstition and its hold over simple folk are captured with a grim reality and a sense of lurking foreboding. [Readers who]...allow the tensions of time and mystery to work will share a strange experience in an unfamiliar world."—The Junior Bookshelf
"Hamley does create a lively picture of how the audiences and actors must have responded to the powerful messages of the miracle plays."—Kirkus Reviews
"The pageants are a frightening battleground—replete with medieval images of corporeal and spiritual corruption—from which Peter and his friends emerge triumphant."—Booklist
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Dennis Hamley was born in 1935. He read English at Cambridge University and until 1992 was teacher and lecturer. In that year he retired early to become a full-time writer. Pageants of Despair was his first novel, published in 1974. He lives with his wife in Hertford, England. His new novel, Ellen's People, is published in the UK by Walker Books.
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- EditorePaul Dry Books Inc
- Data di pubblicazione2006
- ISBN 10 1589880285
- ISBN 13 9781589880283
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine175
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