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Description for In the Frame
Hardcover. From Rhondda heroes chasing the American dream to rioters staking a claim in their society In the Frame is a powerful alternative history of twentieth-century South Wales, offered from the personal viewpoint of cultural historian Dai Smith. Num Pages: 300 pages, full colour section. BIC Classification: 1DBKWS; 3JJ; 3JMC; BM; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 141 x 35. Weight in Grams: 690.
From Rhondda heroes chasing the American dream to rioters staking a claim in their society In the Frame is a powerful alternative history of twentieth-century South Wales, offered from the personal viewpoint of cultural historian Dai Smith. It takes the reader into a territory - a mythical and veritable Dai Country - formed by the influence of writers and painters, boxers and historians, friends and relatives, rioters and correspondents, critics and photographers. As well as the autobiographical overtones of a Tondypandy childhood and distinguished career, In the Frame contains the far wider undertones of a collective biography. Its mosaic ... Read more
From Rhondda heroes chasing the American dream to rioters staking a claim in their society In the Frame is a powerful alternative history of twentieth-century South Wales, offered from the personal viewpoint of cultural historian Dai Smith. It takes the reader into a territory - a mythical and veritable Dai Country - formed by the influence of writers and painters, boxers and historians, friends and relatives, rioters and correspondents, critics and photographers. As well as the autobiographical overtones of a Tondypandy childhood and distinguished career, In the Frame contains the far wider undertones of a collective biography. Its mosaic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906998226
SKU
V9781906998226
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Ref
99-27
About Dai Smith
Dai Smith is currently chair of the Arts Council of Wales. Previous publications include (with Hywel Francis) The Fed: History of the South Wales Miners in the Twentieth Century (1980); Wales: A Question for History (1999) and Raymond Williams: A Warrior's Tale (2008). Dai Smith is also series editor of the Library of Wales series. Born in Tonypandy he now ... Read more
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