Real Port Talbot
Seiten
2021
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2nd New edition
Seren (Verlag)
978-1-78172-652-5 (ISBN)
Seren (Verlag)
978-1-78172-652-5 (ISBN)
In 'Real Port Talbot', Lynne Rees goes in search of the delights of the 'small but mythic town' of Port Talbot. She explores its history and her own past and discovers a place both familiar and unexpectedly new. Updated with new information for this 2nd edition.
Port Talbot is for many a version of the ‘Valleys-by-the-sea’ and certainly its heavy industry, shoehorned into a narrow belt of flat land, feels like a twenty-first century throwback to coal-mining Rhondda. It is the result of an old fashioned local industrial baron building a port to export his coal, and of the politically-inspired siting of heavy industry in the post-war period. But it has a more genteel past as a resort, and may have a more dynamic ‘clean’ future as a centre of environmental research and practice. The cultural event that was ‘The Passion’ in April 2011 is a further clue as to new directions which the town might take. That event also links to Port Talbot’s other famous export, actors: Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins and Michael Sheen.
Real Port Talbot – the latest in the Real series – takes Michael Sheen’s description of the “small but mythic town of Port Talbot ... a town of earthly and sometimes unearthly delights”, and goes in search of those delights. Using the series mix of history, the author’s personal memories and oblique approaches to the physical aspects of the locale, Lynne Rees explores her past and discovers a place both familiar and unexpectedly new. Her text is accompanied by similarly oblique photographs of the town. Updated with new information for this second edition.
Port Talbot is for many a version of the ‘Valleys-by-the-sea’ and certainly its heavy industry, shoehorned into a narrow belt of flat land, feels like a twenty-first century throwback to coal-mining Rhondda. It is the result of an old fashioned local industrial baron building a port to export his coal, and of the politically-inspired siting of heavy industry in the post-war period. But it has a more genteel past as a resort, and may have a more dynamic ‘clean’ future as a centre of environmental research and practice. The cultural event that was ‘The Passion’ in April 2011 is a further clue as to new directions which the town might take. That event also links to Port Talbot’s other famous export, actors: Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins and Michael Sheen.
Real Port Talbot – the latest in the Real series – takes Michael Sheen’s description of the “small but mythic town of Port Talbot ... a town of earthly and sometimes unearthly delights”, and goes in search of those delights. Using the series mix of history, the author’s personal memories and oblique approaches to the physical aspects of the locale, Lynne Rees explores her past and discovers a place both familiar and unexpectedly new. Her text is accompanied by similarly oblique photographs of the town. Updated with new information for this second edition.
Lynne Rees was born, educated and worked in Port Talbot. She has had careers in banking, antiquarian bookselling, publishing and now writing. She took an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan and has published novels, short stories and poetry. She runs a website/blog – www.lynnerees.com – about writing and food.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.09.2021 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Real Series |
| Zusatzinfo | Black and white photographs |
| Verlagsort | Bridgend |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 208 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78172-652-3 / 1781726523 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78172-652-5 / 9781781726525 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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