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Description for Dream on
Paperback. Dream On is a composite novel: part black comedy and flashlight noir thriller, part meditation on the stories that connect up the frayed wires in the business of living. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 278.
Dream On is a composite novel: part black comedy and flashlight noir thriller, part meditation on the stories that connect up the frayed wires in the business of living. There's Digger Davies and his one cap for Wales and ultimately untimely death...the award winning photographer whose return home will become a quest for his own forgotten identity and compromised life...the thwarted politician in a hospital bed writing his own obituary...and a beautiful girl caught in time, alive in an old man's memory...
Dream On is a composite novel: part black comedy and flashlight noir thriller, part meditation on the stories that connect up the frayed wires in the business of living. There's Digger Davies and his one cap for Wales and ultimately untimely death...the award winning photographer whose return home will become a quest for his own forgotten identity and compromised life...the thwarted politician in a hospital bed writing his own obituary...and a beautiful girl caught in time, alive in an old man's memory...
Product Details
Publisher
Parthian Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
278g
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909844711
SKU
V9781909844711
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-33
About Dai Smith
Dai Smith is Professor in the Cultural History of Wales at Swansea University. He has written extensively about modern Wales, including Aneurin Bevan and the World of South Wales (1993) and Wales: A Question for History (1998). He is Series Editor of the Library of Wales and currently Chair of the Arts Council of Wales. Dream On is his fiction ... Read more
Reviews for Dream on
"A broad, ambitious work - with the acerbic wit and grime of the noir thriller." New Welsh Review "Smith's counterclaim - suggesting an alternative culture with which to side-step English cultural absorption." Planet "The great South Wales novel?" Agenda