Bonds of Attachment
$8.00
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There are, of course, bonds of attachment underlying all the novels in the “Land of the Living” sequence. In this final volume, they bind together the voices of the dead poet, John Cilydd More, and his youngest son Peredur in a twin-track narrative. Their words reflect the splendours and the miseries of a century of wars and relentless progress.
A highly acclaimed novelist, Emyr Humphreys has won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Hawthornden Prize. He has published books of poetry, and his Collected Poems appeared in 1999. He is a productive and greatly respected television dramatist and has produced works of non-fiction in both English and Welsh. His recent novel, The Gift of a Daughter, was awarded the Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Prize in 1999.
“The supreme interpreter of Welsh life in English.” –R. S. Thomas
“For a native work of comparable scope invention and authority … one has probably to go back . . . to the Mabinogion cycle itself.” –M. Wynn Thomas
“With the appearance of the seventh novel, Bonds of Attachment, later this year, it will be possible to see the septet [Land of the Living] as one of the finest achievements of Welsh writing in English . . . Already it is clear that Emyr Humphreys is our greatest living novelist.” –Western Mail
“Emyr Humphreys’s long and prolific writing career must now warrant him the title of Wales’s number one novelist and place him amongst the greatest of those who have ever attempted to interpret life in Wales through prose . . . Bonds of Attachment is a rewarding read . . . the Land of the Living series, when read in its entirety, must surely be one of the most extensive, ambitious and richly rewarding works of Anglo-Welsh writing.” —www.gwales.com
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| Dimensions | 1 × 8 × 5 in |
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