The Life of Rebecca Jones by Angharad Price
A poetic work of fiction on the one hand, an autobiography on the other, The Life of Rebecca Jones is about one family's passage through the twentieth century. A fictional elegy to a threatened way of life.
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
'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
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780857387127 |
| ISBN 10 | 085738712X |
| Title | The Life of Rebecca Jones |
| Author | Angharad Price |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Quercus Publishing |
| Year published | 2014-03-06 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Prizes | Winner of Wales Book of the Year: Welsh Language Award 2003, Winner of National Eisteddfod Prose Medal 2002 |
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