ON THE BLACK HILL

Bruce Chatwin

ISBN 10: 0224019805 / ISBN 13: 9780224019804

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1982

About this Item

Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. A review copy with a slip laid in. Seller Inventory # 109170

Bibliographic Details

Title: ON THE BLACK HILL

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London

Publication Date: 1982

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: First Edition; First Printing.

About this title

Synopsis:

An elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. In depicting the lives of Benjamin and Lewis and their interactions with their small local community, Chatwin comments movingly on the larger questions of human experience. "From the Trade Paperback edition."

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.