Adam’s Breed
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- First published
- 1926
- Pages
- 351
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Radclyffe Hall published this novel in 1926, two years before the scandal that made her name, and it won both the Prix Femina and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Gian-Luca is an unwanted orphan raised above a London delicatessen by a hard, bitter grandmother. He grows into a gifted head waiter, admired and prosperous, yet the endless serving of rich food to greedy diners fills him with a disgust he cannot quite name. Worldly success curdles into a hunger of the spirit, and he abandons everything for a solitary retreat into the woods, chasing a purity that ordinary life keeps denying him. Hall writes with real tenderness about loneliness and the ache for something beyond appetite.
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Book facts
- Author
- Radclyffe Hall
- First published
- 1926
- Reading time
- About 10 hours
- Pages
- 351
- Language
- English
- Genre
- British Classics
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online