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Synopsis
A search through the countryside for a lost cow becomes a metaphor for an aging and changing marriage about to be set upon by hard times. In his first, very short novel, set over the course of one difficlut day on a farm in Wales, the Welsh author offsets small barnyard crises with simmering marital tensions. . . A budding talent.""--Kirkus Reviews. A powerful and highly recommended debut.""--Library Journal.
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About the Author
Cynan Jones was born in Wales in 1975. He determined that at twenty-eight he would make writing his primary drive for two years. This he did. The Long Dry is the third novel to be completed but the first accepted for publication. It was written in a blaze of clarity in ten days in May '05, after completing Dance to This - a novel about bin men - which will be published by Parthian in Spring '07. Cynan currently teaches Welsh and music part-time and runs a small wine business, but writes increasingly. His children's story 'The Piano Player's Hands' was included in Richard & Judy's Winning Stories (Chrysalis Books, 2003) as one of twenty-five winners of their national competition. 'The Babysitter' a section from his first novel After the Factory, was included in Parthian's 'Urban Welsh' anthology to a great review from Robert Nisbet in Planet (issue 125). 'The Rabbit' won an honourable mention in the 2004 Lorian Hemingway International Short Story Competition and was later worked into The Long Dry. Cynan currently lives and works near Aberaeron, Wales.
Review
Even when nothing is happening in Jones’s fiction, a lot is happening, and the natural settings are bountifully alive.” Publishers Weekly
Not since I first encountered Faulkner has a writer so impressed me with his rural wisdom. Set in the Welsh countryside, The Long Dry is at once profound and plainspoken, feral and fierce, tender and true. This book is a revelation, and Cynan Jones is a prophet of the wonderfully strange.” Peter Geye
The light in this dark tale comes via its language. Jones writes about this mucky, perilous landscape with a simplicity and passion that evoke Seamus Heaney’s poetry " Kirkus Reviews
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- PublisherParthian Books
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 190263893X
- ISBN 13 9781902638935
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages119
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