On the Black Hill (Picador Books) - Softcover

Chatwin, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330281240 ISBN 13: 9780330281249

Publisher: Picador, 1997

Synopsis

On the Black Hill

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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.

Review:

A masterpiece, a chronicle of ordinary lives told with extraordinary insight. St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Scene after scene is brought to life with an enraptured attention that causes them to glow with an almost visionary light. The New York Times Book Review

Remarkable like a beautiful old quilt, made up of bright vivid patches, with scenes that surprise and delight and seem absolutely true. People

A rare book, one of those splendid evocations of place made so justifiably famous by masters of the British novel in the past century: George Eliot, Hardy, Lawrence Houston Post

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"A masterpiece, a chronicle of ordinary lives told with extraordinary insight." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Scene after scene is brought to life with an enraptured attention that causes them to glow with an almost visionary light." -- The New York Times Book Review

"Remarkable...like a beautiful old quilt, made up of bright vivid patches, with scenes that surprise and delight and seem absolutely true."-- People

"A rare book, one of those splendid evocations of place made so justifiably famous by masters of the British novel in the past century: George Eliot, Hardy, Lawrence"-- Houston Post

-A masterpiece, a chronicle of ordinary lives told with extraordinary insight.- --St. Louis Post-Dispatch

-Scene after scene is brought to life with an enraptured attention that causes them to glow with an almost visionary light.- -- The New York Times Book Review

-Remarkable...like a beautiful old quilt, made up of bright vivid patches, with scenes that surprise and delight and seem absolutely true.--- People

-A rare book, one of those splendid evocations of place made so justifiably famous by masters of the British novel in the past century: George Eliot, Hardy, Lawrence--- Houston Post

"Totally alive . . . a spellbinding portrayal of the unbreakable link between nature and the human spirit."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"A masterpiece, a chronicle of ordinary lives told with extraordinary insight." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Scene after scene is brought to life with an enraptured attention that causes them to glow with an almost visionary light." -- The New York Times Book Review

"Remarkable...like a beautiful old quilt, made up of bright vivid patches, with scenes that surprise and delight and seem absolutely true."-- People

"A rare book, one of those splendid evocations of place made so justifiably famous by masters of the British novel in the past century: George Eliot, Hardy, Lawrence."-- Houston Post

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0330281240
• ISBN 13: 9780330281249
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100