On the Black Hill - Hardcover

Chatwin, Bruce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670524921 ISBN 13: 9780670524921

Publisher: Viking, 1983

Synopsis

The tale of identical twin brothers who toil on the family farm in the wild and vibrant land of Wales and experience the oddities, wonders, and tragedies of human experience.

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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

"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

Edition details

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670524921
• ISBN 13: 9780670524921
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256