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Title Fight and flight : essays on Ron Berry / edited by Georgia Burdett and Sarah Morse
Published Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (210 pages)
Series Writing Wales in English
Writing Wales in English.
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Ways Out: Ways In: Ways Back: An Introduction -- 2. History Is What You Live: Ron Berry's Rumination on His Conflicted Life and Times -- 3. A Man's World: The Short Fiction of Ron Berry -- 4. Reading Hector Bebb: Masculinity and Mythic Paradigms in So Long, Hector Bebb (1970) -- 5. The Full-Time Amateur: Sport in Ron Berry's South Walian Imagination -- 6. 'The Inadequates': Ron Berry and Disability
7. 'Green always comes back': Ron Berry's Ecocentric Writing -- 8. Land of My Feathers: Ron Berry and Niall Griffiths on the Wing -- 9. 'Word-of-mouth cultures cease in cemeteries' -- Afterword, by Ron Berry's Children -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover
Summary Ron Berry is one of the most brilliant and cantankerous of Welsh writers. Radical and earthy, he was a collier, carpenter, navvy, footballer, and unorthodox environmentalist. This volume, the first collection of essays on Berry, is a timely response to his forthcoming centenary
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Subject Berry, Ron, 1920-1997 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Berry, Ron, 1920-1997 fast
Subject Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Burdett, Georgia.
Morse, Sarah.
ISBN 1786835290
9781786835291
9781786835307
1786835304