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By: Emyr Humphreys

ISBN: 9780708315934
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2000
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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Amy Parry is bereft of her best friend who 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. So she marries John Cilydd More, but her peace is soon shattered by strikes and then Pen returns.


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By: Emyr Humphreys

ISBN: 9780708316252
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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In this novel, Peredur defies both his mother's hostility and his brothers' lack of concern to seek out the truth of his father's death and to take part in a protest against the 1969 Investiture that goes violently wrong. Only at the end when Amy Parry faces death can reconciliation be achieved.


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By: Emyr Humphreys

ISBN: 9780708315118
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1999
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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Emyr Humphreys, poet, novelist, short-story writer and dramatist, is one of the foremost literary figures in Wales. For over 40 years he has interpreted the world of Welsh-speaking Wales, sympathetically but without sentiment.


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By: Emyr Humphreys

ISBN: 9780708317358
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2004
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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This volume offers a section of the most important essays published by Emyr Humphreys over a 30-year period. The essays are prefaced by a series of discusssions which explore some of the intellectual concerns and motifs that have recurred throughout Humphreys' work.


(Paperback)

By: Emyr Humphreys

ISBN: 9780708315125
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1999
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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This story of a child named Amy Parry follows her on a journey to maturity, when she will savour to the full the subtle flavours and rich textures of a way of life that has now all but vanished from the Principality of Wales.


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By: Emyr Humphreys

ISBN: 9780708316511
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2001
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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The 6th in the series, Amy, on the death of her husband, is now the mistress of Brangor Hall. However, it is the death of her 2nd husband Cilydd, a poet and Eistedfodd winner, that obsesses her younger son and fuels his dislike of her. Her other son Gwydion is also planning something.


(Paperback)

By: Emyr Humphreys

ISBN: 9780708316269
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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The 5th in a series, this work conveys the conflicts and passions of a small group of individuals in Wales, weighing them against the turmoil caused by war and its effects on a significantly changing Britain.


(Paperback)

By: Emyr Humphreys

ISBN: 9780708315668
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2000
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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Salt of the Earth is the third in a sequence of novels which began with Flesh and Blood and The Best of Friends - a sequence which describes the processes of growth, change and decay which have made Wales what it is today.


(Paperback)

By: Emyr Humphreys

ISBN: 9780708315651
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2000
Publisher: University of Wales Press
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This novel follows "Flesh and Blood" in the Amy Parry narrative sequence. Amy and Enid go together to university where the former takes a leading part in the Nationalist campaign against Anglicization. But when Amy's partner Val and Enid both die, Amy's life is empty of purpose.