The Life of Rebecca Jones (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Life of Rebecca Jones 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.
Full description- Publisher: MacLehose Press
- Published: 01 April 2012
- Format: Hardback 176 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Fiction In Translation
- ISBN 13: 9780857051363 ISBN 10: 0857051369
- Sales rank: 206,456
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Full description for The Life of Rebecca Jones
A poetic work of fiction on the one hand, an autobiography on the other, The Life of Rebecca Jones is a powerful, meditative work on one family's passage through the twentieth century. In the early years of the last century, Rebecca is born into a rural community in the Maesglasau valley in Wales; her family have been working the land for a thousand years, but the changes brought about by modernity threaten the survival of her language, and her family's way of life. Three of her siblings are afflicted with a genetic blindness, and it is they who have the opportunity to be educated elsewhere and to find work, while Rebecca and her remaining brother maintain the family farm amidst a gradual influx of new technologies, from the waterpipe to the tractor and telephone, and ultimately to television. Rebecca's reflections on the century are delivered with haunting dignity and a simple intimacy, while her evocation of the changing seasons and a life that is so in tune with its surroundings is rich and poignant. The Life of Rebecca Jones has all the makings of a classic, fixing on a vanishing period of rural history, and the novel's final, unexpected revelation remains unforgettable and utterly moving.
