Restoration

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Edward Bond Price: $16.95

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“Edward Bond’s Restoration towers like a colossus ... its stylistic wit, moral complexity and theatrical force are of the kind one associates with classic drama” ~ Michael Billington, Guardian

Restoration is set in eighteenth-century England: a world of cruelty, injustice and iron privilege

Lord Are is forced by poverty into an unwanted marriage with the daughter of a wealthy mineowner. One morning, during breakfast, he commits a bizarre and fatal crime

He seeks to pin responsibility for it on his guileless, illiterate footman, Bob Hedges. A battle ensues between Bob’s black, justice-hungry wife and the fortified privilege of the ruling classes

“Bond’s great gift as a comic moralist makes Lord Are condemn himself without sacrificing a scintilla of wit. Bond takes the Restoration style, enters it and turns it against itself” ~ Robert Cushman, Observer