The Island of Apples
Author(s) Glyn Jones
Language: English
Genre(s): Literary Criticism, Welsh and Celtic Studies
- May 2011 ·198x129mm
- · Paperback - 9780708324295
- · eBook - pdf - 9781783161263
- · eBook - epub - 9781783161270
About The Book
The Island of Apples is a brilliant study of a pre-adolescent boy's romantic imagination and dangerous enthralment, set vividly in the south Wales of Methyr Tydfil and Carmarthen in the early twentieth century
Endorsements
" I found my self unexpectedly hooked by the Island of Apples - I became increasingly beguiled by its haunting quality." New York Herald Tribune " An iridescent story." New York Times " The novel, like all true works of art, grows more important with time - it is a remarkable piece of work, sustained and controlled." Leslie Norris, Dictionary of Literary Biography