ON THE BLACK HILL by Bruce Chatwin ( 9780099769712 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

ON THE BLACK HILL

By:

Bruce Chatwin

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0099769719

ISBN 13:

9780099769712

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Publisher:

VINTAGE PUBLISHING

Pub. date:

3 December, 1998

Pages:

272

Description:

On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. In depicting the lives of Benjamin and Lewis and their interactions with their small local community Chatwin comments movingly on the larger questions of human experience.

Synopsis:

On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advances of the twentieth century. In depicting the lives of Benjamin and Lewis and their interactions with their small local community Chatwin comments movingly on the larger questions of human experience.

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Imprint:

Vintage Classics

Prizes:

Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 1982 Winner of Whitbread Prize (First Novel) 1982

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