The Life of Rebecca Jones
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Life of Rebecca Jones
By (Author) Angharad Price
Translated by Lloyd Jones
Translated by Lloyd Jones
Quercus Publishing
MacLehose Press
1st May 2014
6th March 2014
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Fiction in translation
891.6633
Winner of Wales Book of the Year: Welsh Language Award 2003
Physical Properties
Paperback
160
Width 132mm, Height 199mm, Spine 11mm
118g
Description
"The most fascinating and wonderful book" JAN MORRIS
"A restrained, lyrical tour de force" OWEN SHEERSIn the early years of the last century, Rebecca is born into a rural community in the Maesglasau valley in Wales; her family have been working the land for a thousand years, but the changes brought about by modernity threaten the survival of her language, and her family's way of life. Rebecca's reflections on the century are delivered with haunting dignity and a simple intimacy, while her evocation of the changing seasons and a life that is so in tune with its surroundings is rich and poignant. The Life of Rebecca Jones has all the makings of a classic, fixing on a vanishing period of rural history, and the novel's final, unexpected revelation remains unforgettable and utterly moving.Reviews
Angharad Price's reflection of family history through the prism of fiction is a restrained, lyrical tour de force . . . Shot through with meditations on blindness and insight, this account of one family's passage through the twentieth century is skilfully rendered with grace and quiet power. -- Owen Sheers
'How does it feel to write a classic novel This is what Angharad Price has managed with The Life of Rebecca Jones' Tom Payne, Telegraph. * Telegraph *
Angharad Price's reflection of family history through the prism of fiction is a restrained, lyrical tour de force . . . Shot through with meditations on blindness and insight, this account of one family's passage through the twentieth century is skilfully rendered with grace and quiet power. -- Owen Sheers
Author Bio
Angharad Price was born near Caernarfon. A novelist, critic and translator, she has taught at Swansea Univeristy and at Cardiff University, and is now lecturer in Welsh at Bangor University. The Life of Rebecca Jones is her second novel.
