On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
The spellbinding (Los Angeles Times) second novel by the acclaimed author of The Songlines and In Patagonia Lewis and Benjamin Jones, identical twins, were born with the century on a farm on the English-Welsh border. For eighty years they live on the farm--sharing the same clothes, tilling the same soil, sleeping in the same bed. Their lives and the lives of their neighbors--farmers, drovers, clergymen, traders, coffin-makers--are only obliquely touched by the chaos of twentieth-century progress. Nevertheless, the twins' world--a few square miles of countryside--is rich in the oddities, the wonders, and the tragedies of the human experience. In this extraordinary novel, Bruce Chatwin has captured every nuance of the Welsh landscape and of the lives and souls of the people who live there.
Bruce Chatwin (1940 1989) was the author of In Patagonia, The Viceroy of Ouidah, On the Black Hill, The Songlines, and Utz. His other books are What Am I Doing Here and Anatomy of Restlessness, posthumous anthologies of shorter works, and Far Journeys, a collection of his photographs that also includes selections from his travel notebooks.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780670524921 |
| ISBN 10 | 0670524921 |
| Title | On the Black Hill |
| Author | Bruce Chatwin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Viking Books |
| Year published | 1983-01-27 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
| Prizes | Winner of James Tait Black Memorial Book Prize 1982, Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: First Novel Category 1982 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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