Country Dance (Library of Wales) [Paperback]

Margiad Evans (Author), Catrin Collier (Foreword)

Book Description

Series: Library of Wales | Publication Date: January 1, 2006

This first-person account of passion, murder, and cultural conflict plays out in the person of the young Ann Goodman, who is torn by the struggle for supremacy in her mixed blood, Welsh and English. In this love story, set in the late 19th century, the rural way of life is no idyll but rather a savage and exacting struggle for survival.

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"Margiad Evans is a unique phenomenon in border country writing and pretty rare in any writing."

About the Author

Margiad Evans is the author of the novels Creed, Turf or Stone, and The Wooden Doctor, as well as numerous articles and short stories—some of which were collected in The Old and The Young—and two collections of poetry: A Candle Ahead and Poems from Obscurity.

Product Details

• Paperback: 110 pages
• Publisher: Parthian Books (January 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1902638840
• ISBN-13: 978-1902638843
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,168,160 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a real country dance, December 9, 2003

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This review is from: Country Dance (Paperback)

this beautiful little book deserves to be up there with the classics;set in the welsh borderlands at the turn of the century it embraces love,death,and racial tensions between celt and anglo-saxon,and culminates in a trajedy that is more reflective and sad than tragic. this gently written book keeps us with its characters forever and leaves us thirsting for more of a kind. sadly margiad evans was not a prolific writer and only seems known in welsh literature, but deserves wider acclaim.