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Christopher Meredith Shifts (Paperback) Seren Classics
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- Condition
- Book Title
- Shifts
- Publication Name
- Shifts
- Title
- Shifts
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 185411199X
- EAN
- 9781854111999
- ISBN
- 9781854111999
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Publisher
- Seren Books
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Date
- 01/09/1997
- Release Year
- 1997
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Weight
- 9.6 Oz
- Series
- Seren Classics
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publication Year
- 1997
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Topic
- General
- Item Width
- 3.8in
- Number of Pages
- 260 Pages
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Originally published in 1988, this novel charts the lives of four closely bound characters against the background of a declining steelworks.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Seren Books
ISBN-10
185411199x
ISBN-13
9781854111999
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6038754965
Product Key Features
Book Title
Shifts
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
260 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
3.8in
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Pr6063.E74
Edition Number
2
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Shifts Shifts (1988) is Christopher Meredith's first novel. A mature work, written stylishly, it describes the decay of a working-class community in an industrial valley in south Wales. The local steel-works is up for demolition and the last of the workers, all on part-time contracts, wait for the knell to toll. As each furnace goes out, and each mill grinds to a halt, a little dignity is lost. The town finds itself on the dole, and finding the resources to make a fresh start is no easy matter in the face of a bleak and uncertain future. Some will find work. All hope for a generous redundancy package. The bills have to be paid. Maybe a small workshop would pay its way. Despite the circumstances, a strong sense of humour helps keep despair at an arms length, but Friday night binges and one night stands add to a feeling of emptiness and fatality. Shifts has the ingredients - violence and poverty - of any roman noir, but Meredith avoids this monochrome canvas, choosing instead to study a rich spectrum of greys. Shifts is the story of people who are seeking to come to terms with ruined lives. Three of these lives touch. Judith is unemployed and drifting, no longer satisfied by her husband Keith's occasional embrace. Between factory shifts, Keith studies local history, and is feverishly preparing his first lecture. Jack, a childhood friend, comes home to Wales and finds a job at the factory. His affair with Judith seems inevitable. Soon, he takes off for England again, disorientated as ever. Meanwhile, Keith, through his study of history, finds a context for recent events, and shifts, in his own life and in the life of the community. By the end of the book, one senses that he for one will learn to get on with the business of living. Cyfnewidfa Ln Cymru/Wales Literature Exchange
Copyright Date
1988
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Afterword by
Brown, Tony
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Dewey Edition
20
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