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Item Details
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THE ISLAND OF APPLES
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| By: |
Glyn Jones, Belinda Humfrey (Editor), Belinda Humfrey |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£24.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0708311776 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780708311776 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
10 December, 1992 |
| Pages: |
290 |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
No |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
University of Wales Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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