Description
Seen through the intimate lens of a native son, this personal portrait of Wales is less a guidebook than a vivid journey into everyday life—coal-tipped landscapes, chapel culture, schoolyard friendships, and the local politics that shaped a generation. With warmth and sharp observation, the author brings to life the characters, practices, and provincialisms that make each community distinct, revealing how place and people continually inform one another. The book’s high-level arc follows a life lived among his countrymen, moving from formative childhood surroundings to the wider social world that grew around him. Underneath its storytelling, it explores identity, class, tradition, and the enduring power of community memory—written in Gwyn Thomas’s distinctive, conversational style that feels both affectionate and unsparing.
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paperback
Hutchinson
Published Jan 1, 1984
176 pages
ISBN: 9780091540616
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First Published
1964
Language
eng
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