New fiction
Let Dogs Delight. By. George Ewart Evans. Faber and Faber. 100 pp. $7.10.
George Ewart Evans first made a name for himself with well-researched, thoughtful and well-written documentary studies of village and rural life in East Anglia and Suffolk. In such books as “The Pattern Under the Plough,” “The Days That We Have Seen’’ and many others he captured the habits, traditions and oral history of a fast vanishing way of life. “Let Dogs Delignt” is a pleasing collection of short stories set this time in Mr E'-ans’s native Wales; in a valley with a small village and surrounding farms, a valley showing some scars of industry but still clinging strongly to its rural past. None of the subjects are profound but the picture that these gentle, pawky stories give of the way of life and the characters of the Welsh village is authentic and entertaining.
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Press, 18 September 1976, Page 13
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