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On the Black Hill (Vintage classics)
by: Bruce Chatwin
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780099769712 Edition: New edition ISBN: 0099769719 Label: Vintage Languages: Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Pages: 262 Publication Date: January 05, 1999 Publisher: Vintage Studio: Vintage Features:
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List Price: £8.99 Amazon.co.uk's Price: £5.83 You Save: £3.16 (35%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £0.01 Third Party New Price: £3.76 |
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A tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advances of the 20th century. In depicting the lives and their interactions with their small local community the author comments on the questions of human experience.
Amazon.co.uk Review:
Bruce Chatwin's fascination with nomads and wanderlust represents itself in reverse in On the Black Hill, a tale of two brothers (identical twins) who never go anywhere. They stay in the farmhouse on the English-Welsh border where they were born, tilling the rough soil and sleeping in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advance of the 20th century. Smacking of a Welsh Ethan Frome, Chatwin evokes the lonely tragedies of farm life, and above all the vibrant land of Wales.
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- On The Black HillRiveting read. Stark and dark, Gritty reality of the harsh life in the hills through the generations. Love it. Huge bonus to find the original first edition that I mislaid years ago. So tremendous value!
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- Really quite depressing...I read this book as part of a book group and found it heavy going. It centres on rural life with all it's characters, feuds and tragedies. In fact tragedies seemed to occur pretty much every third sentence which I found extremely depressing. There was never any sense of 'justice' or lessons learnt from the tragedies (which I accept makes it 'real' but not particularly enlightening or uplifting for the reader).
Having said that there were some aspects of the book that were interesting. I liked ... Read More
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- On the Black HillBruce Chatwin, the writer of this novel, is mainly known for his travel books. Exotic places and reflections on travelling were his specialty. Yet "On the Black Hill" is possibly his best book, though set entirely in as unexotic a locale as possible, the borderlands between Wales and England. Chatwin's evocation of the peculiar atmosphere of a small, backwards farming community in Wales and the odd characters it produces is at once more lively and more tragic than any travel book could be.
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- Touching, unexpectedChatwin captures the peculiarity of Welsh rural life with both a lightness and an insightfulness that is truly remarkable for someone who was not raised in this strange world. Perhaps it is his particular skill as a travel writer that he makes the very ordinary lives of his characters extraordinary to outsiders. As a Welshman myself, I was deeply moved by the way in which he captured a world that has now, largely, disappeared.
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- On the Black HillAlthough a dark and somewhat miserable story.If you are at all intersted in life as it was years ago,and this is how it was.You will enjoy this.A good read.After reading the book we got the DVD and enjoyed that too.
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