PRINT OF A HARE'S FOOT An Autobiographical Beginning

Rhys Davies

ISBN 10: 0434178012 / ISBN 13: 9780434178018

Published by William Heinemann, London, 1969

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This fine unmarked copy is bound in brown cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine, tight, white, bright and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in fine condition and has been covered in clear, removable, protective film. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted. Rhys Davies (9 November 1901 - 21 August 1978) (born Vivian Rees Davies) was a Welsh novelist and short story writer, who wrote in the English language. One of the most prolific Welsh prose writers of the 20th century, Davies wrote approximately one hundred short stories, as well as twenty novels, three novellas, two books about Wales and an autobiography. Though he lived largely in London, Davies' work is often set in Wales, typically either in a fictionalised Rhondda or further west in his rural stories. Ref XX5. Seller Inventory # 017773

Bibliographic Details

Title: PRINT OF A HARE'S FOOT An Autobiographical ...

Publisher: William Heinemann, London

Publication Date: 1969

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: First Edition

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Synopsis:

Print of a Hare's Foot is both compelling and believable, its status as a modern classic thoroughly deserved. Davies was a writer with impeccable skills of characterisation, and the shopgirls, strikers, preachers and writers who inhabit this 'Autobiographical Beginning' emerge from the book with a powerful vitality equal to the best of his short fiction. It begins with Davies's childhood and adolescence in the Rhondda valleys, where his family are reasonably prosperous shopkeepers, distanced to a degree from the industrial strife and periodic poverty that surrounds them. Leaving life behind the counter, Davies moves to London, to the literary scene and anonymous bed-sitters in Fitzrovia. Alternatively writing and travelling during the 20s and 30s, in France he catches crabs in Nice and discusses Chekhov with D. H. Lawrence, a great friend and important influence. And in Germany, the homosexual Davies is an uneasy witness to the rise of Nazism.