Flame and Slag (Library of Wales)

Flame and Slag (Library of Wales)

by RonBerry (Author)

Synopsis

Flame and Slag is Ron Berry's masterpiece. It is a richly complex novel which uses the fictional sieve of Caib Colliery and the village of Daren to give meaning to the kaleidoscopic history of all the South Wales valleys in the last century. The unspeakable horror of Aberfan in 1966 was the terrible nemesis of that now lost world, and as re-imagined in this remarkable 1968 novel is the cusp time in the intertwined lives of the lovers, Rees Stevens and Ellen Vaughan, and of Ellen's father, John whose journal is the book-within-a book which Rees must discover and interpret if all the fires of living on are not to fall into cold ash.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 238
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Parthian Books
Published: 01 Nov 2012

ISBN 10: 1906998485
ISBN 13: 9781906998486

Media Reviews
'The definitive book of South Wales... frying on the streets with pavement empathy' Alun Richards, author of Library of Wales classic Dai Country.
Author Bio
Ron Berry was born in 1920 in Blaen-cwm in the Rhondda Valley, and worked as a miner from the age of fourteen. His first published novel, Hunter and Hunted, appeared in 1960 and was followed by Travelling Loaded (1963), The Full-Time Amateur (1966), Flame and Slag (1968) and So Long, Hector Bebb (1970). He also wrote shorter fiction for television and radio. His last novel, This Bygone, was published in 1996. He died in 1997 and his Collected Stories and autobiography, History is What You Live, appeared posthumously in 1998.