On the Black Hill (signed copy)-1
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On the Black Hill (signed copy)

£375.00

CHATWIN, Bruce SKU: 21795

London: Jonathan Cape, 1982.

Signed by the author to the titlepage. First Edition. Publisher's grey cloth in the price-clipped dust-jacket. 249 pages. A fine copy. Chatwin's bleak third novel, set in the hills of Radnorshire on the border between England and mid-Wales. It tackles various themes including unrequited love, sexual repression and confusion, social, religious and cultural internalism. Voted winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 1982.