At the Bright Hem of God: Radnorshire Pastoral - Softcover

Conradi, Peter J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854114905 ISBN 13: 9781854114907

Publisher: Seren, 2009

Synopsis

Based on the author’s visit in 1965, this unique volume is written as a love letter to the mid-Wales county of Radnorshire. Within its autobiographical frame, this account covers the history and religious life of the area as reflected through its local writers and its adjacent townships, from 1176 to the present day. Exploring this fascinating location in detail, this investigation depicts its rural landscape as remote, wild, and renowned for shaping the lives of its inhabitants. Selecting key moments in its history from the Middle Ages to the 21st century this examination reviews the responses of writers as varied as Thomas Traherne, Bruce Chatwin, and Jean Jacques Rousseau. The result is a unique portrait of the county what it is like to have lived there and to live there still that captures the essence of a hidden part of Wales and Britain. Within this intriguing narrative, the various landscapes of borders physical, emotional, and intellectual from the author’s own particular racial, religious, and spiritual identity are analyzed, forming a complementary exploration of the human condition.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter J. Conradi is a biographer, a journalist, and the author of Going Buddhist and Iris Murdoch: A Life.

Review:

"[At the Bright Hem of God] is extraordinarily rich in narrative and scope of reference, and often poetic in its evocation of this loneliest of rural places, a landscape of 'golden silences.' Wandering smoothly and beguilingly among topics, personalities and historical periods, startling with little known facts, both celebration and elegy, it is a lovely book."  —PN Review 190

"Elegantly written."  —New Welsh Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Seren
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1854114905
• ISBN 13: 9781854114907
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220