{"product_id":"fight-and-flight-essays-on-ron-berry-9781786835284","title":"Fight and Flight: Essays on Ron Berry","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Georgia Burdett | Sarah Morse\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Wales Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Wales Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRon Berry (1920-1977) was born in Blaencwm, a small village in the Rhondda Valleys of Wales. At age fourteen, he left school to follow his father's career in the mines, and he remained a miner until World War II. Following his military service, he attended college, where he became an avid reader; soon after, he began writing, publishing his first novel, \u003ci\u003eHunters and Hunted\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1960. Over the course of the next four decades, Berry would publish five more novels, a collection of stories, and a memoir, all of which shared a concern with the difficult lives of the working class people among whom he had grown up in the Rhondda Valleys. \u003cbr\u003e While Berry was relatively neglected in his lifetime, his work is increasingly being seen as some of the most astute writing from Wales of the twentieth century. This collection, the first sustained critical study of his work, offers a literary, physical, and chronological view of Berry, from his personal life to the literary geographies and communities in which he was situated to his creative legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Wales Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47889226203287,"sku":"9781786835284","price":2487.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781786835284.webp?v=1781175079","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/fight-and-flight-essays-on-ron-berry-9781786835284","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}