Border Country - Library of Wales

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Border Country
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Border Country - Library of Wales

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Harry Price has worked for years as a railway signalman in the Welsh border village of Glynmawr. Now he has had a stroke, and his son, Matthew, a lecturer at Oxford, returns to the close-knit community that he left. As Harry lies in silent pain in his cramped bedroom, Matthew experiences the jarring familiarity of the childhood world which, alienated, he can no longer re-enter. Struggling with the unspoken tensions and losses that returning home has provoked, he recalls what has made him who he is. Upstairs his deeply thoughtful father recalls his own arrival in the village, the relationships between men during the General Strike, and the social and personal changes that followed, and he struggles to articulate all that has been left unsaid. A beautiful and moving portrait of the love between a father and son, and of the strength and resilience of a small community, Border Countryis Raymond Williams' finest novel
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781902638812
ISBN10 1902638816
Number Of Pages 436
Item Weight 503 g
Product Dimensions 139 x 215 x 31 mm
Publisher / Reseller Parthian Books
Format paperback
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'I do not think that I have ever been so moved by a modern novel as I was by this tremendously exciting and beautifully written work... I know that it has made me take stock of my own position, and cannot doubt that it is a great novel.' Dennis Potter

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Author's Bio

Raymond Williams was born in the Welsh border village of Pandy in 1921. After the war he began an influential career in education with the Extra Mural Department at Oxford University. His life- long concern with the interface between social development and cultural process marked him out as one of the most perceptive and influential intellectual figures of his generation. He returned to Cambridge as a Lecturer in 1961 and was appointed its first Professor of Drama in 1974. His best- known publications include Culture and Society (1958), The Long Revolution(1961), The Country and the City (1973), Keywords (1976) and Marxism and Literature (1977).

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