{"product_id":"9781841951256","title":"Household Ghosts: A James Kennaway Omnibus: Tunes of Glory; Household Ghosts; Silence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTunes of Glory\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eHousehold Ghosts\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSilence\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMemorably filmed with Alec Guinness and John Mills, \u003ci\u003eTunes of Glory\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eHousehold Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaken from completed drafts on the author's desk, \u003ci\u003eSilence\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Canongate Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057892933872,"sku":"9781841951256","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781841951256_p0.jpg?v=1763741902","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781841951256","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}