From AwardAnnals
Results of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the year 1982. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
On the Black Hill
Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Chatwin’s fascination with nomads and wanderlust represents itself in reverse in
On the Black Hill, a tale of two brothers (identical twins) who never go anywhere. They stay in the farmhouse on the English-Welsh border where they were born, tilling the rough soil and sleeping in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the advance of the 20th century. Smacking of a Welsh
Ethan Frome, Chatwin evokes the lonely tragedies of farm life, and above all the vibrant land of Wales.
