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One Moonlit Night

One Moonlit Night

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    Paperback 2009

    $37.46

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    Hardcover 1995

    $3.34
Synopsis

This simple novel tells of one boy's journey into the grown-up world. By the light of a full moon our narrator and his friends Huw and Moi witness a side to their Welsh village life that they had no idea existed, and their childish innocence is exchanged for a shocking introduction to the horrors of the adult world. First published in Welsh in 1961, Philip Mitchell's translation, the first complete translation in English, captures all the vibrancy of Prichard's magnificent prose. In this new edition Jan Morris and Niall Griffiths explain why this remains one of the Britain's most significant and brilliant pieces of fiction.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 08 Jan 2009
ISBN 10: 1847671071
ISBN 13: 9781847671073
Book Overview: A long-awaited new edition of this 20th century masterpiece

Media Reviews
An esoteric masterpiece. -- Jan Morris
Heart-wrenching. A classic to be read and reread. * * Daily Telegraph * *
One of the oddest, most elusive, most haunting novels ever. -- Niall Griffiths
A remarkable book that recalls Under Milk Wood. * * Times Literary Supplement * *
One of the great lost voices of Welsh literature. For its portrayal of a vanished way of life, and for its evocation of the tearless sadness of insanity, this strange, melancholy book deserves to be widely read. * * Observer * *
A very moving, often funny account of childhood. * * Spectator * *
Lyrical and visceral, comic and tragic, compellingly earthy and maddeningly gothic - after 40 years this literary oddity continues to elude classification. * * Observer * *
Challenging, compressed and utterly compelling. * * Guardian * *
Premonitions of insanity and the mercurial personality of its narrator give the story a hallucinatory, ambiguous edge. * * Herald * *
Author Bio
CARADOG PRICHARD (1904-80) was born in the slate-quarrying town of Bethesda, in north-west Wales. He moved to London, and after the Second World War became a sub-editor on the foreign desk at the Daily Telegraph. During this time he wrote four prize-winning odes and this exceptional novel.