Description
Set in the fictional sieve of Caib Colliery and the village of Daren, this hard-driven, Faulknerian novel gathers the kaleidoscopic history of South Wales over the last century through the lives of working people shaped by the rhythms of the mines. With a sparse, uncompromising style and a fierce moral thrust, it follows a boxer from Cymmer as he prepares a comeback—while the surrounding community’s hopes, losses, and adaptations reveal how deindustrialization reshapes identity. Ron Berry’s signature interior intensity brings the valleys to vivid life, where landscape and animal presence become part of the story’s emotional weather. At its core, the book is about endurance and change: how communal bonds persist, how ambition survives, and how a proletarian world finds meaning when the old order begins to fall away.
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paperback
Gomer
Published Jan 1, 1996
205 pages
ISBN: 9781859023211
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First Published
1996
Language
eng
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