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Alun, Gweno and Freda is a radical reworking of John Pikoulis's
classic biography, Alun Lewis: A Life (Seren, 1984) with new
material which sheds further light on the greatest writer of the
Second World War, Alun Lewis (1915-1944). Born in the impoverished
industrial valleys of south Wales, the story of Lewis has many
varied aspects - he was a talented academic, a gifted writer, a
depressive personality, politically aspirational in left wing
terms, a pacifist by nature who was faced with a war against
fascism. In the course of the war he became caught between two
women on opposite sides of the world, his wife Gweno and Freda
Aykroyd, an ex patriot in India whose house provided respite for
officers on leave there. Lewis's relationships with Gweno and Freda
informed his poetry but also contributed to an inevitable emotional
turmoil. He died in mysterious circumstances on active service in
Burma: was his death an accident or suicide? And did his triangular
relationship with Gweno and Freda contribute to the ending of his
life? Essentially the story of Lewis's short and sometimes tortured
life, the book is also the story about how it was written. It
quotes extensively from interviews with and correspondence from the
main players in the story, and explores the sometimes difficult and
delicate territories to be negotiated by the biographer as a story
unfolds.
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