Until our blood is dry
By: Kit Habianic
Publisher: Parthian Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9781909844544; 9781909844537
Subjects: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM; European; Social conditions; Fiction; Family Life; FICTION
Description: Trouble is brewing in Ystrad. It is time to defend jobs, the pits and a way of life that has formed both the life of valley and the nation. The union is squaring up to the Coal Board, the government and the country. Gwyn Pritchard, overman at Blackthorn colliery, believes that the way to save his pit is to keep his men working and production high. His men disagree and when an old collier dies on Gwyn's shift, the men's simmering resentment spills over into open defiance. But Gwyn faces a challenge at home too. His daughter Helen is in love with a fiery young collier, Scrapper Jones. In March 1.
Table of contents: title: 10; title: 11 -;; title: 12 -;; title: 13 -;; title: 14 -; Acknowledgements; Further acknowledgements; Copyright; Advertisement.