This novel follows "Flesh and Blood" in the Amy Parry narrative sequence. Amy and Enid go together to university where the former takes a leading part in the Nationalist campaign against Anglicization. But when Amy's partner Val and Enid both die, Amy's life is empty of purpose.
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This novel follows "Flesh and Blood" in the Amy Parry narrative sequence. Amy and Enid go together to university where the former takes a leading part in the Nationalist campaign against Anglicization. But when Amy's partner Val and Enid both die, Amy's life is empty of purpose.
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This novel follows Flesh and Blood in the Amy Parry narrative sequence. Amy and Enid go together to university, where the former takes a leading part in the Nationalist campaign against Anglicization. Later Enid pairs off with John Cilydd More, a young solicitor who is also a poet, and Amy with Val Gwyn, an idealistic student leader. But Val dies of tuberculosis and Amy, in the post university world, falls prey to Pen Lewis, Communist and opportunist; Enid also dies. In this section of the narrative Amy loses her way: the props provided by other people's ideals and visions of society (the Communist one proving to be just another exploitation of women) having been removed she is empty of purpose.
Critic Reviews
“"The Best of Friends'is that rarity, a serious novel that is also immensely entertaining." BirminghamPost”
'The Best of Friends is...part of a sequence which, when completed, will have described the processes of growth, change and decay which have made Wales what it is today. For such a task Mr Humphreys is eminently well qualified.' Goronwy Rees, TLS 'A great novel.'Western Mail 'Emyr Humphreys tells a sensitive story of Welsh life with tact and sureness.'Financial Times 'Emyr Humphreys is the sort of writer who would be in the running for a Nobel prize if Wales had lobbyists in Stockholm.'Observer 'The touch and smell of pri-mordial Wales are magisterially transmitted.'Sunday Times 'The supreme interpreter or Welsh life.'R.S. Thomas 'One of the most masterful yet natural-seeming authors of fiction in these islands today.'Scotsman
About the Author
Emyr Humphreys is one of the foremost Anglo-Welsh novelists in Wales. The author of 21 novels, one of which won the Somerset Maugham Award and another, The Toy Epic, now an A-Level set text. He is also the author of volumes of poetry, short stories and cultural criticism. He has also written a 'selected history' of Wales, The Taliesin Tradition.
A paperback reprint of the second of seven novels in the sequence The Land of the Living by a Welsh master of fiction in English, following Amy Parry and her friend Enid as they embark on college life in the 1920's, nurturing an interest in nationalism, socialism and women rights, and as they deal with lovers and seek a role in life. First published in 1978.
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