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Description for Dai Country
Paperback. Cast a baleful eye on the personal relationships and social ambitions of the inhabitants of Dai Country. In this volume, the best of the author's short stories are combined with his autobiographical memoir "Days of Absence" to take us to the core of those incomparable valleys, with their lived experience stripped bare of cliche and sentiment. Series: Library of Wales. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 326.
At the heart of Dai Country - the central valleys of twentieth-century South Wales from the 1930s to the 1970s - was the metropolis of Pontypridd, and it is from this vantage point in time and space that Alun Richards cast his baleful eye on the personal relationships and social ambitions of the inhabitants of this much-fabled country. In this compendium volume, the best of his short stories, as funny and savage as they are scathing and compassionate, are combined with his entrancing autobiographical memoir "Days of Absence" to take us to the core of those incomparable valleys, with their ... Read more
At the heart of Dai Country - the central valleys of twentieth-century South Wales from the 1930s to the 1970s - was the metropolis of Pontypridd, and it is from this vantage point in time and space that Alun Richards cast his baleful eye on the personal relationships and social ambitions of the inhabitants of this much-fabled country. In this compendium volume, the best of his short stories, as funny and savage as they are scathing and compassionate, are combined with his entrancing autobiographical memoir "Days of Absence" to take us to the core of those incomparable valleys, with their ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
Series
Library of Wales
Number of Pages
346
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906998158
SKU
V9781906998158
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-31
Reviews for Dai Country
"The fiction establishes him as the supreme chronicler of (post-war) South Wales valley life... and his fascinating account of his upbringing in English-speaking Pontypridd... raises questions about the complex plurality of modern Wales which still command serious attention." The New Companion to the Literature of Wales (1998)