Border country
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Border Country is a novel by Raymond Williams.
Matthew Price, a university lecturer in economic history, returns from London to visit his sick father in South Wales - the Black Mountains, rural but closely connected to the nearby mining valleys. His father had been a railway signalman, and the story includes flashbacks to the 1920s, the General Strike and its impact on a small group of railway workers living in a community made up mostly of farmers. It also describes Matthew Price's own decision to become an academic and leave his own community.
It is not a novel of dramatic events; instead it gives you a sense of people and places. Matthew Price's life has many parallels with Raymond Williams's own life and background. The Hogarth Press edition of 1988 catches the spirit of it with a front cover showing the signalman and his son, with the signalman's face recognisably that of Raymond Williams as he then was.
The book has been republished in the Library of Wales series. It has never really been out of print since its first publication in 1960. At Amazon Books (UK) it is in the top 4000.
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