On The Black Hill
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Grey boards. Unpriced dj - export copy.
Rooted in the windswept borderlands between England and Wales, On the Black Hill is a sweeping, intimate saga that chronicles the lives of twin brothers, Lewis and Benjamin Jones, across eighty years of the twentieth century. Bruce Chatwin presents a richly textured portrait of rural life on the Welsh Marches, where the rhythms of farming, faith, and family loyalty bind two souls together in a relationship at once tender and fiercely codependent, even as the wider world — through two World Wars, shifting modernity, and relentless change — threatens to pull them apart. Chatwin's prose, spare yet luminous, illustrates a profound meditation on time, place, identity, and the peculiar nature of twinship as a metaphor for human longing and belonging. Drawing on the traditions of both pastoral literature and the English novel, the book argues quietly but powerfully for the enduring significance of the local and the particular against the tide of history. Winner of the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel in 1982, On the Black Hill remains one of the most quietly devastating works of late twentieth-century British fiction — a novel that leaves you wondering whether to stay rooted or to flee is the braver act.
Author: Bruce Chatwin
Format: Hardback
Published: 1982, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Grey boards. Unpriced dj - export copy.
Rooted in the windswept borderlands between England and Wales, On the Black Hill is a sweeping, intimate saga that chronicles the lives of twin brothers, Lewis and Benjamin Jones, across eighty years of the twentieth century. Bruce Chatwin presents a richly textured portrait of rural life on the Welsh Marches, where the rhythms of farming, faith, and family loyalty bind two souls together in a relationship at once tender and fiercely codependent, even as the wider world — through two World Wars, shifting modernity, and relentless change — threatens to pull them apart. Chatwin's prose, spare yet luminous, illustrates a profound meditation on time, place, identity, and the peculiar nature of twinship as a metaphor for human longing and belonging. Drawing on the traditions of both pastoral literature and the English novel, the book argues quietly but powerfully for the enduring significance of the local and the particular against the tide of history. Winner of the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel in 1982, On the Black Hill remains one of the most quietly devastating works of late twentieth-century British fiction — a novel that leaves you wondering whether to stay rooted or to flee is the braver act.