On The Black Hill
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:3rd Dec '98
Should be back in stock very soon
WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD
On the Black Hill is 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.
On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advances of the twentieth century.
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.
His deepest and best book * Independent *
When I think of Bruce Chatwin now, I think of the ultimate storyteller. It’s the resonance of the voice and the depth of his vision that makes him one of the truly great writers of our time -- Werner Herzog, from 'Bruce Chatwin' by Nicholas Shakespeare
Nearly every writer of my generation in England has wanted, at some point, to be Bruce Chatwin; wanted, like him, to talk of Fez and Firdausi, Nigeria and Nuristan, with equal authority; wanted to be talked about, as he is, with raucous envy; wanted above all to have written his books…(he was) a writer no one who cares for literature can afford not to read. -- Andrew Harvey * New York Times *
- Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 1982
- Winner of Whitbread Prize (First Novel) 1982
ISBN: 9780099769712
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm
Weight: 194g
272 pages