Library of Wales: So Long Hector Bebb by Ron Berry

Library of Wales: So Long Hector Bebb by Ron Berry

The first title in the landmark series of classics, the Library of Wales. An account in Ron Berry's sparse and uncompromising style of the story of a boxer from Cymmer in south Wales ready to make his comeback. Abe has ensured Hector is nurtured into a single-minded fighting machine. He is ready to take on the world, but where do the true dangers lie? -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

'Hector Bebb and his loyal associates stand as symbols of the put-upon, the inarticulate underdogs of our grubby industrial society [..] whose humour, tenacity and fierce spirit pass almost unnoticed in English Literature [...] It is Ron Berry's skill that what is ugly and terrifying is unfolded before us in a way which robs us of our much conditioned reflexes to violence.' Alun Richards, Planet

Ron Berry was born in 1920 in Blaen-cwm in the Rhondda Valley,and he worked as a miner from the age of fourteen. Although he served in both the Army and the Merchant Navy in the Second World War, his consistent attitude to all authority was to absent himself from it. He was a gifted sportsman who had played for Swansea Town, and was an occasional boxer, but it was a year in adult education at Coleg Harlech in the early 1950s that released him from sporadic casual work to concentrate on writing. Against all odds he never flagged in this determined pursuit.In addition to So Long, Hector Bebb, he published four works of fiction, including Travelling Loaded (1963); The Full-Time Amateur (1966); Flame and Slag (1968), and This Bygone (1996).

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ISBN 13	9781902638805
ISBN 10	1902638808
Title	Library of Wales: So Long Hector Bebb
Author	Ron Berry
Series	Library Of Wales Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Parthian Books
Year published	2005-12-23
Number of pages	272
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