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The Afterglow

The Afterglow

by Anthony Cartwright (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

    $5.92
Synopsis

Anthony Cartwrights first novel, winner of a Betty Trask award, is a novel of sharp social observation and compassion exploring the effects of changes in a community upon a family in postindustrial Dudley.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Tindal Street Press
Published: 01 Apr 2004
ISBN 10: 0954130367
ISBN 13: 9780954130367

Media Reviews
No doubt about it. Anthony Cartwright can certainly write. This is a painfully honest and accomplished first novel, a grimly realistic account of a working-class Black Country family at home and at work and at play, so utterly faithful to the world it sets out to recreate that one has to admire it. Vivid and dramatic, it penetrates beneath the skin of young and old. We are given no more than the remnants of the old working-class world of warmth and solidarity, one that has now had its heart torn out, but what afterglow there is comes from the portrait of the mother, Mary, and her 'little victories of life over death.'