Books: Welsh Travail

How GREEN WAS MY VALLEY—Richard Llewellyn—Macmillan ($2.75).

When Huw Morgan begins his story he is close onto 60, slag heaps have crept close against the house his youth was spent in, and he is about to leave forever his native valley in Wales. Within a page he has sunk back more than 50 years deep into glassily clear reverie, into a time when the valley and life in it were beautiful.

". . . In those days money was easily earnt and plenty of it," and the Welsh coal miners lived a powerful, lyric, godly life without regard for English speech or English...

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