Word: gallicisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strike for a Kingdom, by Menna Gallic. A brief and beautifully written first novel of labor strife in the Welsh coal fields...
Strike for a Kingdom, by Menna Gallic. Welsh coal miners strike, and so does a murderer in this sorrow-laced, comic novel by a woman who writes well...
...Menna Gallic's brief and beautifully written first novel of the Welsh coal fields is the sort of book that bestselling authors should be required to copy two or three times in longhand. The language has a strong, sly wit, and the story-of a troubled, strikebound village-is told with force and skill. Welsh-born Novelist Gallie is able to give her sympathy to the strikers without the posturing of protest literature, and to evoke the gamy folk flavor of her villagers without being cute or condescending...