HESTER AND HER FAMILY

by H. W. Freeman ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 7, 1935

Freeman seems to have a faculty for getting under the skin of his rural characters and making them live. Hester is a ""natural"" -- passion is as spontaneous and as readily expressed as hunger in some. And the result -- in her family -- makes the theme of this story. There is nothing of salacious sexiness --sex simply is, and that's that. A story of rural England not long before the war -- but chiefly the story of Hester, child of nature, with no outward circumstances to give her joy, but with an abundant font of joy within, and a zest for life which found its mate -- after several false starts -- in a racetrack gambler. The most interesting novel he has done since Joseph and His Brethren.

Pub Date: Nov. 7, 1935

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Holt

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1935

Categories: FICTION