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Loyalties (novel)

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1985 novel by Raymond Williams
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First edition (publ. Chatto & Windus)

Loyalties is a novel by Raymond Williams, first published in 1985. ISBN 0-7012-0897-X

Plot

A political drama that begins in 1936 and extends to the 1980s. How a small group, some from very privileged backgrounds and some working-class militants, react first to the rise of Fascism, then the war, then the changing of alignments during the Cold War. There is suspicion that some of them were doing a lot more than they admitted to their friends. Suspicions of personal and political betrayal.

References

  1. Kondo, Yasuhiro (2011). "'To Feel the Connections': Collectivity and Dialectic in Raymond Williams's Loyalties". Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism (9): 112–123. ISSN 1369-9725.


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