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A Winter in the Hills (Paperback)
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' A] triumph of mature observation and art.' - "Daily Telegraph"
'A winter's tale of light and laughter.' - "Sunday Times"
'What is especially enjoyable is the rough-edged tenderness and
kindness of Mr Wain's concern ... probably his most substantial
achievement to date.' - Robert Nye, "Saturday Times Review"
' S]ubstantial and serious ... sustains a vigorous narrative line
- he has always been an excellent storyteller.' - "Times Literary
Supplement"
' A] love affair between its author and North Wales itself.... It
is a novel with its heart in the right place, and it knows where
the right place is.' - "The Observer"
'Clever and entertaining.' - "The Guardian"
Roger Furnivall is a forty-year-old philologist with no money and
no sex life. But he thinks he's found a way to solve both problems:
a cushy university post in Sweden pays well and promises access to
plenty of beautiful blondes. There's just one catch: the job
requires a knowledge of Welsh. Taking a sabbatical in North Wales
to learn the language, Roger expects a long and dreary winter of
linguistic study, but instead quickly finds himself drawn into the
drama of local affairs. A large corporation seeking a monopoly has
squeezed every bus operator out of business but one: taciturn
hunchback Gareth Jones is the lone holdout. Seeing in this one
man's struggle for survival against the faceless forces of
corporate greed a problem more important than any he has ever
faced, Roger is moved to help. But when the company's hired thugs
begin to make attempts on his life, Roger discovers that his winter
in the hills may end up being much more than he had bargained for
...
John Wain (1925-1994) catapulted to fame with "Hurry on Down"
(1953), the defining novel of what the media called the 'Angry
Young Men' movement, but it was in his later works, in which he
explored the unresolved place of the individual in a world of
social change driven by abstract and impersonal economics, that he
was at his best. This edition of "A Winter in the Hills" (1970),
one of his finest novels, includes a new foreword by Will Wain.
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