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An Absolute Hero

Land of the Living 4

Author(s) Emyr Humphreys

Paperback - £7.99

Language: English

Genre(s): Literary Criticism

Series: Land of the Living

March 2000 · 240 pages ·216x138mm

· eBook - pdf - 9780585330624
· Paperback - 9780708315934

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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.

'A novel of remarkable lyricism...creative and fresh.' The Listener 'Excellent ... holds the reader spellbound.' Sunday Telegraph.

Author(s): Emyr Humphreys

Emyr Humphreys is one of Wales's foremost novelists and author of 21 novels, including a past winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and works that are now set texts at A-Level. He is the author of volumes of poetry, short stories, cultural criticism and has also written a selected history of Wales, The Taliesin Tradition.