
One Moonlit Night
Caradog Prichard(Author)
Canongate Canons (Publisher)
Published on 5. March 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-78211-676-9 (ISBN)
Description
WINNER OF THE GREATEST WELSH NOVEL
This outstanding novel tells of one boy's journey into the grown-up world. By the light of a full moon our narrator and his friends Huw and Moi witness a side to their Welsh village life that they had no idea existed, and their innocence is exchanged for the shocking reality of the adult world.
One Moonlit Night is one of Britain's most significant and brilliant pieces of fiction, a lost contemporary classic that deserves rediscovery.
This outstanding novel tells of one boy's journey into the grown-up world. By the light of a full moon our narrator and his friends Huw and Moi witness a side to their Welsh village life that they had no idea existed, and their innocence is exchanged for the shocking reality of the adult world.
One Moonlit Night is one of Britain's most significant and brilliant pieces of fiction, a lost contemporary classic that deserves rediscovery.
Reviews / Votes
A remarkable book that recalls Under Milk Wood * * Times Literary Supplement * * One of the great lost voices . . . For its portrayal of a vanished way of life, and for its evocation of the tearless sadness of insanity, this strange, melancholy book deserves to be widely read * * Observer * * Heart-wrenching. A classic to be read and reread * * Daily Telegraph * * An esoteric masterpiece. -- Jan Morris Lyrical and visceral, comic and tragic, compellingly earthy and maddeningly gothic - after 40 years this literary oddity continues to elude classification * * Observer * * One of the oddest, most elusive, most haunting novels ever. -- Niall Griffiths A very moving, often funny account of childhood. * * Spectator * * Utterly compelling * * Guardian * * Premonitions of insanity and the mercurial personality of its narrator give the story a hallucinatory, ambiguous edge. * * Herald * * Lyrical . . . Prichard's elegiac account of a troubled boyhood belongs on the same shelf with Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy, Roddy Doyle's Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes . . . Readers will inevitably be reminded of another Welsh work, Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, that portrays various colourful inhabitants of a minuscule community . . . Whether grim or playful, Prichard's vision in One Moonlit Night is communicated in language that provides intense esthetic pleasure. Those of us who do not know Welsh can only speculate about the texture and cadences of the original . . . The sketches of various townspeople are especially sharp and often moving * * New York Times * *More details
Series
Edition
Main - Canons Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Canongate Books
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
149 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78211-676-9 (9781782116769)
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Caradog Prichard
One Moonlit Night
Book
01/2009
Canongate Books
€31.15
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Persons
Caradog Prichard (1904-80) was born in the slate-quarrying town of Bethesda, in north-west Wales. He moved to London, and after the Second World War became a sub-editor on the foreign desk at the Daily Telegraph. During this time he wrote four prize-winning odes and this exceptional novel, which has posthumously been named The Greatest Welsh Novel of all time.