The Life of Rebecca Jones

Angharad Price, Lloyd Jones, Lloyd Jones

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English

Maclehose Press
01 May 2014

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

"""The most fascinating and wonderful book"" JAN MORRIS

""A restrained, lyrical tour de force"" OWEN SHEERS

In the early years of the last century, Rebecca is born into a rural community in the Maesglasau valley in Wales; her family have been working the land for a thousand years, but the changes brought about by modernity threaten the survival of her language, and her family's way of life.

Rebecca's reflections on the century are delivered with haunting dignity and a simple intimacy, while her evocation of the changing seasons and a life that is so in tune with its surroundings is rich and poignant. The Life of Rebecca Jones has all the makings of a classic, fixing on a vanishing period of rural history, and the novel's final, unexpected revelation remains unforgettable and utterly moving."

By: Angharad Price
Translated by: Lloyd Jones, Lloyd Jones
Imprint: Maclehose Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 199mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 118g
ISBN: 9780857387127
ISBN 10: 085738712X
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 01 May 2014
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Author Website: http://www.wardmccandlish.co.uk/AuthorPhoto/QuercusPublishing/Angharad_Price.jpg

Angharad Price was born near Caernarfon. A novelist, critic and translator, she has taught at Swansea Univeristy and at Cardiff University, and is now lecturer in Welsh at Bangor University. The Life of Rebecca Jones is her second novel. Lloyd Jones' novel Mr Cassini was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award.

Reviews for The Life of Rebecca Jones

Angharad Price's reflection of family history through the prism of fiction is a restrained, lyrical tour de force . . . Shot through with meditations on blindness and insight, this account of one family's passage through the twentieth century is skilfully rendered with grace and quiet power. -- Owen Sheers 'How does it feel to write a classic novel? This is what Angharad Price has managed with The Life of Rebecca Jones' Tom Payne, Telegraph. * Telegraph * Angharad Price's reflection of family history through the prism of fiction is a restrained, lyrical tour de force . . . Shot through with meditations on blindness and insight, this account of one family's passage through the twentieth century is skilfully rendered with grace and quiet power. -- Owen Sheers