Dai Country (Library of Wales)

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2009
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At the heart of Dai Country - the central valleys of twentieth-century South Wales from the 1930s to the 1970s - was the metropolis of Pontypridd, and it is from this vantage point in time and space that Alun Richards cast his baleful eye on the personal relationships and social ambitions of the inhabitants of this much-fabled country. In this compendium volume, the best of his short stories, as funny and savage as they are scathing and compassionate, are combined with his entrancing autobiographical memoir Days of Absence to take us to the core of those incomparable valleys, with their lived experience stripped bare for once of their usual cloak of cliche and sentiment.

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At the heart of Dai Country - the central valleys of twentieth-century South Wales from the 1930s to the 1970s - was the metropolis of Pontypridd, and it is from this vantage point in time and space that Alun Richards cast his baleful eye on the personal relationships and social ambitions of the inhabitants of this much-fabled country. In this compendium volume, the best of his short stories, as funny and savage as they are scathing and compassionate, are combined with his entrancing autobiographical memoir Days of Absence to take us to the core of those incomparable valleys, with their lived experience stripped bare for once of their usual cloak of cliche and sentiment.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 230
Publisher: Parthian Books
Published: 04 Sep 2009
ISBN 10: 1906998159
ISBN 13: 9781906998158

Media Reviews

The fiction establishes him as the supreme chronicler of (post-war) South Wales valley life... and his fascinating account of his upbringing in English-speaking Pontypridd... raises questions about the complex plurality of modern Wales which still command serious attention. The New Companion to the Literature of Wales (1998)

Author Bio

Alun Richards was a novelist, a playwright, and a screenwriter. He is the author of more than eight books, including Days of Absence, The Former Miss Merthyr Tydfil and Other Stories, and Home to an Empty House.