The Afterglow by Anthony Cartwright
Anthony Cartwrights first novel, winner of a Betty Trask award, is a novel of sharp social observation and compassion exploring the effects of changes in a community upon a family in postindustrial Dudley.
The Afterglow
Summary
Showing the oddness and the humour of post-industrial working life, this novel tells of a family holding their lives together in the face of social and emotional upheaval.
The Afterglow Summary
The Afterglow Reviews
"No doubt about it. Anthony Cartwright can certainly write. This is a painfully honest and accomplished first novel, a grimly realistic account of a working-class Black Country family at home and at work and at play, so utterly faithful to the world it sets out to recreate that one has to admire it. Vivid and dramatic, it penetrates beneath the skin of young and old. We are given no more than the remnants of the old working-class world of warmth and solidarity, one that has now had its heart torn out, but what afterglow there is comes from the portrait of the mother, Mary, and her 'little victories of life over death.'"
Additional information
GOR001385299
9780954130367
0954130367
The Afterglow by Anthony Cartwright
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Profile Books Ltd
2004-02-01
288
N/A
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