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THE HEYDAY IN THE BLOOD
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| By: |
Geraint Goodwin, Dai Smith (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1905762836 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781905762835 |
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| Publisher: |
PARTHIAN BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
24 October, 2008 |
| Series: |
Library of Wales No. 19 |
| Pages: |
266 |
| Description: |
Beti, the beautiful daughter of a pub landlord, is pursued by two men: Llew, her aggressive, red-haired cousin, and Evan, the miller and would-be poet. She has to make a choice but it's not her future alone that depends on her decision. She and Tanygraig are positioned precariously on borders of class, nation, language, and changing times. |
| Synopsis: |
The village of Tanygraig on the Welsh-English border is the setting for this passionate novel of love and its consequences. Beti, the beautiful and wilful daughter of a pub landlord, is pursued by two men: Llew, her aggressive, red-haired cousin, and Evan, the dreamy miller and would-be poet. She has to make a choice but it's not her future alone that depends on her decision. She and Tanygraig are positioned precariously on borders of class, nation, language, and changing times. In this enduring novel by Geraint Goodwin, first published in 1936, Wales is associated with tradition and stability, England connotes modernity and movement. Beti is conscious of living at a temporal border: "The old way of things was ending; she had come at the end of one age and the beginning of another. Wales would be the last to go - but it was going..." |
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ill |
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UK |
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Parthian Books |
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