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Title | : | On The Black Hill |
Author | : | Bruce Chatwin |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 262 pages |
Published | : | December 3rd 1998 by Vintage Classics (first published 1982) |
Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction |

Bruce Chatwin
Paperback | Pages: 262 pages Rating: 3.97 | 2701 Users | 276 Reviews
Description To Books On The Black Hill
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 twentieth 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.Details Books In Pursuance Of On The Black Hill
Original Title: | On the Black Hill |
Edition Language: | English |
Characters: | Benjamin Jones, Lewis Jones, |
Literary Awards: | James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (1982), Whitbread Award for First Novel (1982) |
Rating Epithetical Books On The Black Hill
Ratings: 3.97 From 2701 Users | 276 ReviewsPiece Epithetical Books On The Black Hill
I mostly read this during our trip to Hay-on-Wye earlier in the month, and feel it is worthy of being called a modern classic. It has echoes of D.H. Lawrence and especially Thomas Hardy, and its a pleasantly offbeat look at the developments of the twentieth century as seen through the lives of Welsh identical twins Benjamin and Lewis Jones. Opening in the 1980s, when the brothers are eccentric old gents sleeping side by side in their late parents bed, the book then retreats to the beginning: atReading this book is like taking a trip to a farm on the English-Welsh border. There isn't much happening and the everyday things that are normal happenings to us are a big deal at The Vision Farm. Chatwin's writing is very gentle and gives us a feeling of adoration for the two brothers that have such devotion to each other. Without much of a plot, the book is place driven and character driven. I would recommend it to anyone who loves to read about rural nature.
Take Haruki Murakami's novel, Kafka on the Shore. A delight to its juvenile readers, and why wouldn't it? Lots of props here: cats talking to humans, frogs falling like rain from the sky, a son having sex with his mother, a brother-and-sister love scene, killings, ghosts. Even the title hints of fantasy. After reading it, however, you feel empty. Like you've spent new year's eve all alone, you've watched the fireworks in the sky consume themselves, then you sleep with no remembrance of any joy.

A warm-hearted and somewhat bleak tale of identical twin brothers, Benjamin and Lewis, living out their lives together on a rural farm on the border of Wales and England. The initial scenes of their comfortable routines in their 80s are followed by a step back to the origin of their lives soon after the marriage of their parents at the end of the 19th century. They settle into the life of tenant sheep farmers, fixing up an old farmhouse they call The Vision close by the beautiful Black Hill.We
2.5 stars - Metaphorosis ReviewsBrothers, twins in body and spirit, spend much of their lives together on a farm at the Welsh-English border.I've not read Bruce Chatwin before, but have heard of him mainly as a travel writer. Certainly, in On the Black Hill, his prose is simple and unembroidered. However, he demonstrates that it is also possible to be too plain. The events of the book, tangled and of great potential interest, pass by like notes in an almanac. On this day, this happened; on the
NOW AVAILABLE - This will be the first time Bruce Chatwins first novel has been published in e-format, making it available for e-tablet readers. This edition also contains an illustrated biography of Bruce Chatwin, including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the authors estate. He never thought of abroad. He wanted to live with Lewis for ever and ever; to eat the same food; wear the same clothes; share a bed; and swing an axe in the same trajectory. There were four gates leading
This was a fine novel and I enjoyed it but it was radically unlike anything else Ive read from Mr. Chatwin. More measured, less eccentric, but a very warm and mildly humorous and satisfying read. It reminded me somehow of G.B. Edwards The Book of Ebenezer LePage. Chatwin was a famous traveler, but On the Black Hill is a story about staying put. His two main characters, Benjamin and Lewis Jones, spend their whole lives on or near the family farm in the Welsh borders. The story spans a period from
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