In the 'black velvet stars and the hexagons of printed calico' that
make up the patchwork quilt that covers their bed, unmarried twins
Lewis and Benjamin Jones can summon lost memories of the one woman
they truly loved - their mother Mary. This novel too has a
mesmerizing patchwork structure. Piecing together the thousand
events that take place over 80 years in the farm known as 'The
Vision', Chatwin arrives at something truly epic. In all his
restless journeying, he never wrote a better nor more visionary
novel than this one, located closest to home. Dirk Bogarde wrote of
On the Black Hill: 'This book was my first meeting with Chatwin. A
splendid way to start with this extraordinary writer due now, I
would say, to be 'de-hyped' after some years of awe. Whatever is
done to him by the intellectual literati lot his power will remain,
and this wild, moving, wonderfully researched and, above all,
understood, story of two brothers (and those around them) on the
bleak, bold, glorious Black Hills of the Welsh borders will remain
for all time. He writes so perfectly, so clearly, with such
staggering economy, that one is constantly catching one's breath at
the splendour that is evoked by perfectly simple, uncomplicated,
words beautifully and skilfully set down before delighted eyes. His
writing is like clear spring water rather than sugared synthetic
liquid in cans.' (Kirkus UK)
'Nothing in Chatwin's previous work prepares us for the dramatic intensity with which scene after scene of the novel is brought to light. He belongs, like Lawrence and Hardy before him, to that line of novelists, poets, diarists, and amateur naturalists who have made the rural life of Great Britain more intimately known to generations of readers than that of any country in Europe or America' New York Times Book Review.
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