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The Oracles

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The Oracles
First edition (UK)
AuthorMargaret Kennedy
LanguageEnglish
GenreComedy
PublisherMacmillan (UK)
Rinehart (US)
Publication date
1955
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

The Oracles is a 1955 comic novel by the British writer Margaret Kennedy.[1] Kennedy was best known for The Constant Nymph and its sequel The Fool of the Family, but had enjoyed renewed success in the early 1950s, and her previous work Troy Chimneys was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.[2] It was published in the United States by Rinehart under the alternative title of Act of God.[3]

Synopsis

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During a heavy storm, a piece of garden furniture is struck by lightning and twisted out of shape. It comes to rest in the garden of the bohemian artist, convincing everyone that it is a wonderful form of modern sculpture. His intellectual friends he try to convince the council of the provincial English town on the Bristol Channel to purchase it with public funds.

References

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  1. ^ Vinson p.403
  2. ^ Hammill p.150
  3. ^ Vinson p.403

Bibliography

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  • Hammill, Faye. Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture Between the Wars. University of Texas Press, 2007.
  • Vinson, James. Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers. Macmillan, 1982.