Out Of Their Night
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Hughes' main topic in his novels was the slate quarries in his native Wales and this novel is about a long strike in the slate quarries, dedicated to the men who fought to make conditions better for the miners. The translation was completed two days before he went into hospital. Though he survived for another two months, he never was able to read the translation before he died of multiple sclerosis in 1949. The story starts with two teenage boys traipsing over the hills. They are Llew and Gwyn Evans. They meet various people but are hazy about their motives, though they are clearly heading for the copper mines. When they get there, we learn that they are looking for work. Gwyn had been working in the slate quarry but they are on strike, while Llew, aged thirteen, is looking for a job to help his family. Unfortunately, they get lost on the way back but are helped by Dick Shepherd, who is one of the more militant strikers. Llew and Gwyn are the sons of Edward and Martha. Edward is very much involved in the slate quarry strike and is one of the leaders. The bad feeling has been going on for some time, over working conditions and pay and has resulted in a strike, which has lasted some nine months by the beginning of the novel. Part of the problem is that some of the men who formed the committee that went to see the management about pay and conditions were sacked merely for being on the committee. . . Overall, it is a superb novel about the grim working conditions of the Welsh slate quarry workers and the hard effects of a strike on a community, The community is essentially broken up, as a result of the strike and, indeed, families are also broken up as, with the Evans family, there are traitor and non-traitors within the same family. Very good condition. No highlighting or other notes. (Unclipped) d/j is clean/intact.
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