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On The Black Hill

Bruce Chatwin

Paperback | Pages: 262 pages

Rating: 3.97 | 2701 Users | 276 Reviews

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

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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.

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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)

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Reading 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.

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

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: at

Nabokov once states that all great stories are fairy tales in the sense that each work of fiction was a magical creation of a new world, 'On The Black Hill' is broadly speaking a "realistic" work of fiction but Chatwin is able to imbue it (especially the depiction of the Jones brothers childhood) with a magic, not with the magic of fiction but the magic of life. 'On The Black Hill' is the story of the lives of two twins in rural Wales. Nothing much happens in their lives, neither travel further

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I've never read Chatwin before but his name immediately brings to my mind voyages and creates beguiling images of distant lands. Meanwhile in On the Black Hill we receive ordinary though unusual in its simplicity story, set on the farm called "The Vision " on the english-wales border. Chatwin effortlessly and with great charm and discreet humor painted hymn to the unchanging rhythm of life, hard work and carefully cultivated Welsh separateness. With keen eye described the small, closed

The story of a Welsh farming family focusing especially on twin brothers, Lewis and Benjamin. Having recently read a biography of Chatwin by N Shakespeare, I had already encountered several of the characters here. L&B are based upon two farming brothers introduced to Chatwin by his friend, Penelope Betjeman. Similarly, some of the other characters evolved in this way. It was therefore difficult for me to see this always as a work of fiction.Beautifully written in spare clear prose it is