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On the Black Hill is a novel by Bruce Chatwin published in 1982 and winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for that year. In 1987 it was made into a film, directed by Andrew Grieve.
- Bruce Chatwin
- 1982
On the Black Hill begins in the closing years of the 19th century with the marriage of dour, puritanical Welsh farmer Amos Jones (Bob Peck) to his social superior, vicar’s daughter Mary Latimer (Gemma Jones) after the death of her father (Mark Dignam).
Jan 1, 1982 · Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, his novel On the Black Hill (1982) was set closer to home, in the hill farms of the Welsh Borders. It focuses on the relationship between twin brothers, Lewis and Benjamin, who grow up isolated from the course of twentieth century history.
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- Bruce Chatwin
Jan 26, 2017 · On the Black Hill is a book about people to whom the ‘world of men’ is at most an irrelevance. There is a crackling sense of the old world – the old world the Romantics looked to, as well as the one nostalgia gives to us.
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.
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- Bruce Chatwin
Lewis (Robert Gwilym) and Benjamin (Mike Gwilym) are Welsh identical twin brothers who travel a long, complicated journey throughout their 80-year...
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Oct 31, 2012 · 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...
