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The Caves of Alienation
Stuart Evans

£9.99

The Caves of Alienation is a story of unfolding revelation about the difficult, fascinating character of Caradock. His family made their fortune from the industry of Wales, but his cosseted childhood in the Welsh valleys only fuelled his desire to leave, and his efforts to escape are explored through the multi-voiced narrative. The book features his crucial first encounters with sex, his literary success in London and his final withdrawal to Wales. Friends and enemies, literary rivals, lovers, critics, the ‘official biography’, even television and radio documentaries jostle each other in the narrative with their own fragments of truth. This is a kaleidoscopic read.

Parthian Books, 9781905762958
Paperback 608pp

Biography

Stuart Evans was born in Swansea in 1934 and brought up at Ystalyfera in Glamorgan. It was as a novelist that he established his reputation, with eight long, technically complex novels which are more inclined to the philosophical than is usual in English fiction. They include Meritocrats (1974), The Gardens of the Casino (1976), The Caves of Alienation (1977), and a quintet known as The Windmill Hill Sequence. He also published two volumes of verse, Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads (1972) and The Function of the Foal (1997). He died in 1994.

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