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So Long Hector Bebb
Ron Berry
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Description for So Long Hector Bebb
Paperback. Featuring the first volume in the "Library of Wales" series, this book recounts the story of a boxer from Cymmer in south Wales ready to make his comeback. Abe has ensured Hector is nurtured into a single-minded fighting machine. He is ready to take on the world, but where do the true dangers lie. Series: Library of Wales. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 352.
A year out of the game for a fight gone wrong, Hector Bebb, a boxer from Cymmer, south Wales, is ready to make a comeback, confident that he's got himself under control. Those around him aren't so sure, and their fears are justified as, second time round, Hector's savagery takes a terrible toll, and he has to go on the run. So Long, Hector Bebb, which originally appeared in 1970, recounts in Ron Berry's sparse and uncompromising style the compelling story of the tragic-heroic Hector, a story set in the brutal world of boxing and the disintegration of ... Read more
A year out of the game for a fight gone wrong, Hector Bebb, a boxer from Cymmer, south Wales, is ready to make a comeback, confident that he's got himself under control. Those around him aren't so sure, and their fears are justified as, second time round, Hector's savagery takes a terrible toll, and he has to go on the run. So Long, Hector Bebb, which originally appeared in 1970, recounts in Ron Berry's sparse and uncompromising style the compelling story of the tragic-heroic Hector, a story set in the brutal world of boxing and the disintegration of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Series
Library of Wales
Condition
New
Weight
352g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781902638805
SKU
V9781902638805
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-21
About Ron Berry
Ron Berry was born in 1920 in Blaen-cwm in the Rhondda Valley,and he worked as a miner from the age of fourteen. Although he served in both the Army and the Merchant Navy in the Second World War, his consistent attitude to all authority was to absent himself from it. He was a gifted sportsman who had played for Swansea ... Read more
Reviews for So Long Hector Bebb
'Hector Bebb and his loyal associates stand as symbols of the put-upon, the inarticulate underdogs of our grubby industrial society [...] whose humour, tenacity and fierce spirit pass almost unnoticed in English Literature [...] It is Ron Berry's skill that what is ugly and terrifying is unfolded before us in a way which robs us of our much conditioned reflexes ... Read more