Black Parade - Jones Jack
Black Parade - Jones Jack One of Merthyr's Victorian brickyard girls, Saran watches the world parade past her doorstep on the banks of the stinking and rat-infested Morlais Brook: the fair-day…
Specifikacia Black Parade - Jones Jack
Black Parade - Jones Jack
One of Merthyr's Victorian brickyard girls, Saran watches the world parade past her doorstep on the banks of the stinking and rat-infested Morlais Brook: the fair-day revellers; the chapel-goers and the funeral processions. hooter, pit strikes, politics and the First World War that takes away so many of her children. She never misses a trip to the town's wooden theatres, despite her life ruled by the 5 a.m.
The town changes and grows but Saran is still there for Glyn, for Harry, for her children and grandchildren. Her Glyn will work a treble shift for beer money; her brother Harry is the district's most notorious drinker and fighter until he is 'saved'. In his 1935 novel Black Parade, writer, soldier and political activist Jack Jones creates a superbly riotous, clear and unsentimental picture of Merthyr life as his home town reels headlong into the twentieth