The Island of Apples
Language: English
Genre(s): Literary Criticism
- December 1992 · 290pages · 198x129mm
- ·Hardback - 9780708311776
- ·Paperback - 9780708324295
- · eBook - epub - 9781783161270
- · eBook - mobi - 9781783161287
- · eBook - pdf - 9781783161263
About The Book
Glyn Jones is a renowned Welsh poet, his handling of words and imagery is dazzling. In this novel we have also a story with an exciting accelerating plot, with an eminently readable narrative. 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. Also a sophisticated philosophic artefact which explores the relationship between vision and reality in general terms and through the heightened experience of their conflict and confusion in a boy on the margin between adulthood and the ‘dying’ of parents and childhood. In her introduction, Belinda Humfrey analyses and characterizes the novel; interprets some of its mysteries (beginning with the title), and places it within a twentieth century and larger literary context. She takes account of the novel’s critical history and Glyn Jones’s perception of it; and she makes use of his manuscript drafts and working notebooks.
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 "One of the best books I have read in recent times, the realism and emotional journey this text will send you on makes it an exceptional and essential novel.' www .gwales.com