One Moonlit Night

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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 * *