Library of Wales: Black Parade by Jack Jones
One of Merthyr's Victorian brickyard girls, Saran watches the world parade past her doorstep on the banks of the stinking and rat-infested Morlais Brook. The town changes and grows but Saran is still there for Glyn, for Harry, for her children and grandchildren. This 1935 novel creates a picture of Merthyr life.
"Black Parade (1935) is strong because.. it includes the many-sided turbulence, the incoherence and contradictions, which the more available stereotypes of the history exclude. It can be properly contrasted with... Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley (1939)... widely and properly seen as the export version of the Welsh industrial experience." Raymond Williams
Jack Jones was born in Merthyr Tydfil in 1884. He left school at twelve to work with his father as a miner. His political engagement saw him act for the Miners' Federation; join the Communist Party, then Labour. He stood as Liberal candidate for Neath in 1929. Married with five children, he earned a living through mining, as a platform-speaker, navvy, salesman, assistant cinema-manager and writer. In 1948 he was made a CBE, and in 1968 he was elected first president of the English section of Yr Academi Gymreig.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781906998141 |
| ISBN 10 | 1906998140 |
| Title | Library of Wales: Black Parade |
| Author | Jack Jones |
| Series | Library Of Wales |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Parthian Books |
| Year published | 2009-08-26 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |