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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 familys 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 familys 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.
Rebeccas 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 novels final unexpected revelation remains unforgettable and utterly moving.
Rebeccas 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 novels final unexpected revelation remains unforgettable and utterly moving.
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