"First published in 1962, this novel tells the tale of a young collier's death in Cilhendre, a fictional village in the South Wales valleys. It vividly and sympathetically portrays how the Valley community and, in particular, its women struggle to come to terms with the sudden loss. Yet fo...

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1. Verfasser:	Gallie, Menna 1920-1990 (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Dinas Powys, Wales Honno [2010]
Schriftenreihe:	Welsh women's classics
Schlagworte:	Coal mine accidents / Wales / Fiction Wales / Social life and customs / 20th century / Fiction Coal mine accidents Manners and customs Wales 1900-1999 Fiction
Zusammenfassung:	"First published in 1962, this novel tells the tale of a young collier's death in Cilhendre, a fictional village in the South Wales valleys. It vividly and sympathetically portrays how the Valley community and, in particular, its women struggle to come to terms with the sudden loss. Yet for all its tragic subject matter the book also conveys the warmth and gusto of the villagers' lives. In the 'swinging' sixties, long after nationalisation, Wales still has a number of privately owned small mines, with workforces of fewer than fifty men. Joe leaves his job with the Coal Board and goes to work in one such small mine, for more money but with much worse conditions. He pays a high price for his higher wage - meeting with a sudden death by industrial accident. An inquest into the cause of Joe's death closes the mine on grounds of negligence, but the villagers are suspicious and point the finger not at an accident but at a local who had lost his job - giving rise to a vacancy that Joe then filled."
Beschreibung:	First published in England by Victor Gollancz Ltd., in 1962
Beschreibung:	xiv, 156 Seiten
ISBN:	9781906784218 1906784213