On The Black Hill

Author: Bruce Chatwin

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  • : 12.95 AUD
  • : 9780099769712
  • : Penguin Random House
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  • : May 1998
  • : United Kingdom
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Barcode 9780099769712
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Description

"On the Black Hill" is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advances of the 20th century. In depicting the lives of Benjamin and Lewis and their interactions with their small local community Chatwin comments movingly on the larger questions of human experience.

Awards

Winner of Whitbread Prize (First Novel) 1982 and James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 1982.