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Emyr Humphreys - Gift of a Daughter, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

Gift of a Daughter

Av Emyr Humphreys

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The Gift of a Daughter is a novel of delusion and self-knowledge, tradition and change, loss and identity in which the pace, plotting, characterisation and dialogue are as faultless as we expect from a writer of Emyr Humphreys's experience and skill.Archaeology lecturer Aled Morgan and his wife Marian flee to Tuscany, and the home of old friends, to escape a family tragedy. Yet even immersed in Etruscan culture, Aled finds that friendships aren't all they seem, and that his wife has become almost a stranger to him. In fact he isn't even sure he knows himself any more. By the time he returns to his once idyllic home in Anglesey, Aled is sadder and more experienced but in many ways no wiser. In charting Aled's journey of spiritual discovery, Emyr Humphreys has once again written an engrossing novel of the human condition.Emyr Humphreys is the author of twenty novels in English and Welsh, and has also published collections of stories and poetry. He has written screenplays and adapted other works for television and radio, in addition to producing and directing in both of those media. His novels have won the Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year, Hawthornden and other prizes.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1997-09-18
  • Mått: 226 x 143 x 25 mm
  • Vikt: 420 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 300
  • Förlag: Poetry Wales Press
  • ISBN: 9781854112224
  • Utmärkelser: Winner of Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year Award 1999
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Emyr Humphreys, born in 1919 in Prestatyn, north Wales, is one of the foremost Welsh novelists writing in English. He is the author of over twenty novels, of short story volumes, verse and non-fiction work, and was described by the poet R.S. Thomas as 'the supreme interpreter of Welsh life'. In the early 40’s, as a conscientious objector, and whilst studying history at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, he was sent to work on the land during the Second World War. He subsequently went as a war relief worker to the Middle East and then to Italy. In the mid-fifties, he joined BBC Wales as a drama producer, before taking a lectureship in Drama at the University of Wales, Bangor. In 1972, after remarkable success as a young novelist, winning the Somerset Maugham Award for Hear and Forgive (1952) and the Hawthornden Prize for A Toy Epic (1958), his most famous novel, written in both Welsh and English, he embarked on a career as a full-time writer. His work, which has remained true throughout his career to the realist novel, is concerned with goodness, with social and political conscience. Mass culture is an opiate, which the necessarily singular voice of the fiction writer must (in however beleaguered a manner) continue to oppose.' In his volume of short stories, Old People are a Problem (Seren, 2003), he explores a variety of situations in which the young and the old are obliged to live together at the beginning of the 21st century. His most recent work is The Woman at the Window (Seren, 2009).

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