Menna Gallie (–1990)
Autore di Strike for a Kingdom
Opere di Menna Gallie
Opere correlate
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Gallie, Menna Patricia Humphreys
- Data di nascita
- 1920
- Data di morte
- 1990
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Wales
UK - Luogo di nascita
- Ystradgynlais, Cymru
- Luogo di residenza
- Trefdraeth, Sir Benfro, Cymru
Utenti
Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 6
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 45
- Popolarità
- #340,917
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 10
The sense of community was portrayed very well in this novel: by that I don't mean that it was sentimentalised in any way, but that both the good and bad points of the community life were put forward and examined. Many of the protagonists of the novel have a strong sense that the community is almost an entity in its own right which it is worth working to preserve, but Gallie does not shie away from examining the pressures, particularly on the women, of that same community's expectations and double-standards. And something that I particularly liked was the portrayal of the children, at first seemingly inserted for a little light relief, but soon becoming pivotal to the events recounted.
[The Small Mine] is one of the Honno Classics series which, according to the blurb on the back, is 'an imprint which brings books in English by women writers from Wales, long since out of print, to a new generation of readers.' With its well-written picture of a vanished community, [The Small Mine] seems one that definitely justifies its republication in the twenty-first century. I'll certainly be looking out for more by Menna Gallie in particular and Honno in general.… (altro)