Flame and Slag by Ron Berry - 9781906998486

Flame and Slag

Author:

Ron Berry 

Publisher:

Parthian Books - Library of Wales

Date Published:

2013

ISBN No:

9781906998486

Condition description:

Very clean, bright and tight paperback. No wear, as new. Looks unread. Please allow 3-5 days for delivery within the UK, please contact me for international delivery times. No quibble refund if not entirely satisfied. 

Synopsis:

Flame and Slag is Ron Berry's masterpiece. It is a richly complex novel which uses the fictional sieve of Caib Colliery and the village of Daren to give meaning to the kaleidoscopic history of all the South Wales valleys in the last century. The unspeakable horror of Aberfan in 1966 was the terrible nemesis of that now lost world, and as re-imagined in this remarkable 1968 novel is the cusp time in the intertwined lives of the lovers, Rees Stevens and Ellen Vaughan, and of Ellen's father, John whose journal is the book-within-a book which Rees must discover and interpret if all the fires of living on are not to fall into cold ash.