The Blue Tent - Softcover

Gwyn, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1912681285 ISBN 13: 9781912681280

Publisher: Parthian Books, 2019

Synopsis

In a lonely house deep in the Black Mountains of south Wales, a man spends insomniac nights absorbed in the ancient texts left him by his mysterious aunt. When a blue tent appears in the field at the end of his garden, his solitary life is turned inside out. But who owns the tent? And when the tent's occupants emerge, whose story are they telling? As his life unravels, the man begins to question whether he is the orchestrator or the victim of his own experiences. Are the stories that guide or steer his life - any life - real, or merely the echo of other, possible lives?

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Review

A mysterious, dream-like story, delicately-written and with a disturbing under-tow, The Blue Tent is in the best tradition of modern oneiric fiction.' Patrick McGuinness --Patrick McGuinness

About the Author

Richard Gwyn grew up in Breconshire, Wales. After a period of living in London he spent the 1980s travelling, much of it recorded in his memoir, The Vagabond's Breakfast, which won a Wales Book of the Year award in 2012. His first novel, The Colour of a Dog Running Away (2005), which has been translated into eight languages. He is the author of four collections of poetry, the most recent of them being Stowaway: A Levantine Adventure (2018). His work as a translator from Spanish includes The Other Tiger: Recent Poetry from Latin America (2016). He is Professor of Creative and Critical Writing at Cardiff University and the author of Ricardo Blanco's Blog.

About this edition

• Publisher: Parthian Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1912681285
• ISBN 13: 9781912681280
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220