An Absolute Hero

by Emyr Humphreys

Overview

The fourth of the novels in The Land of the Living sequence finds Amy Parry bereft of her best friend Enid who has died in childbirth, unable to marry Val Gwyn who is seriously ill with TB, and determined not to choose poverty and struggle with her former lover Pen Lewis.
 
When she marries John Cilydd More, companionship and motherhood bring her security and some fulfilment. But her peaceful existence is invaded by the turbulence of striking miners and hunger marchers – and the return of Pen Lewis. The events of the Spanish Civil War come to hold great significance in 1930s Wales, and particularly for Amy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780708315934
Publisher:	University of Wales Press
Publication date:	03/13/2000
Series:	University of Wales Press - Land of the Living
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 5.50(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

M. Wynn Thomas is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales, University of Wales, Swansea. His many books include studies of Morgan Llwyd, Emyr Humphreys, The Page’s Drift: R. S. Thomas at Eighty, Internal Difference: Writing in Twentieth-Century Wales, DiFfinio Dwy Lenyddiaeth Cymru, and Corresponding Cultures: the Two Literatures of Wales.

Editorial Reviews

A novel of remarkable lyricism . . . creative and fresh.” –The Listener

The Listener

Excellent . . . holds the reader spellbound.” –Sunday Telegraph

Sunday Telegraph

Excellent . . . holds the reader spellbound.” –Sunday Telegraph

Sunday Telegraph