One Moonlit Night [Paperback]

WINNER OF THE GREATEST WELSH NOVEL

This outstanding novel tells of one boy's journey into the grown-up world. By the light of a full moon our narrator and his friends Huw and Moi witness a side to their Welsh village life that they had no idea existed, and their innocence is exchanged for the shocking reality of the adult world.

One Moonlit Nightis one of Britain's most significant and brilliant pieces of fiction, a lost contemporary classic that deserves rediscovery.

One of the great lost voices . . . For its portrayal of a vanished way of life, and for its evocation of the tearless sadness of insanity, this strange, melancholy book deserves to be widely readHeart-wrenching. A classic to be read and rereadLyrical . . . Prichard's elegiac account of a troubled boyhood belongs on the same shelf with Patrick McCabe'sThe Butcher Boy, Roddy Doyle'sPaddy Clarke Ha Ha Haand Frank McCourt'sAngela's Ashes. . . Readers will inevitably be reminded of another Welsh work, Dylan Thomas'sUnder Milk Wood, that portrays various colourful inhabitants of a minuscule community . . . Whether grim or playful, Prichard's vision inOne Moonlit Nightis communicated in language that provides intense esthetic pleasure. Those of us who do not know Welsh can only speculate about the texture and cadences of the original . . . The sketches of various townspeople are especially sharp and often movingOne of the oddest, most elusive, most haunting novels ever.An early precursor toThe League of GentlemenAn esoteric masterpiece.Premonitions of insanity and the mercurial personality of its narrator give the story a hallucinatory, ambiguous edge.A remarkable book that recallsUnder Milk WoodA very moving, often funny account of childhood.Utterly compellingWINNER OF THE GREATEST WELSH NOVELPhilip Mitchell's reworking of Prichard's Welsh conveys the particularity of a time and place that existed recently in years, but lc�