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In these promiscuous parts / Menna Gallie

By:

Gallie, Menna [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : St. Martin's Press, c1986Description: 264 pages ; 22 cmISBN:

312425376

Subject(s):

WALES -- FICTION

LOC classification:

FIC .G35 1986

Summary: With a gritty benevolence, a native writer conveys the earthy ambiance of a little Welsh town where a lot goes on. When Rosie (named for Rosa Luxembourg) Kendrew, 40-ish, sexy, scholarly, tools up from Cambridge to holiday with her aging mother in Trenewydd, she easily slips into the quirky lifestyle of the locals. Her mother is the resident Communist, serene amongst the stirrings of the town's politics. There's salmon poaching, tippling in the pubs to keep the Welsh damp at bay, tilts with the police buffoons, ructions from the Welsh Language Society. The characters are colorfully expressive, and Gallie (Strike For a Kingdom; The Small Mine probes the rich comic vein of the ferociously independent Welsh, putting the rigors of their daily life in perspective.

Item type:

Books - Fiction

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books - Fiction	National University - Manila	LRC - Annex Fiction	Fiction	FIC .G35 1986 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	c.1	Available		NULIB000003590

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With a gritty benevolence, a native writer conveys the earthy ambiance of a little Welsh town where a lot goes on. When Rosie (named for Rosa Luxembourg) Kendrew, 40-ish, sexy, scholarly, tools up from Cambridge to holiday with her aging mother in Trenewydd, she easily slips into the quirky lifestyle of the locals. Her mother is the resident Communist, serene amongst the stirrings of the town's politics. There's salmon poaching, tippling in the pubs to keep the Welsh damp at bay, tilts with the police buffoons, ructions from the Welsh Language Society. The characters are colorfully expressive, and Gallie (Strike For a Kingdom; The Small Mine probes the rich comic vein of the ferociously independent Welsh, putting the rigors of their daily life in perspective.

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