{"product_id":"how-green-was-my-valley-9780795300240","title":"How Green Was My Valley","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe international-bestselling winner of the National Book Award and the basis for the Academy Award-winning film directed by John Ford.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuw Morgan remembers the days when his home valley was prosperous, verdant, and beautiful-before the mines came to town. The youngest son of a respectable mining family in South Wales, he is now the only one left in the valley, and his reminiscences tell the story of a family and a town both defined and ruined by the mines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHuw's story is both joyful and heartrending-a portrait of a place and a people existing now only in memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFull of memorable characters, richly crafted language, and surprising humor, \u003cem\u003eHow Green Was My Valley \u003c\/em\u003eis the first of four books chronicling Huw's life, including the sequels \u003cem\u003eUp into the Singing Mountain, Down Where the Moon is Small\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eGreen, Green My Valley Now\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The reader emerges from these tense pages strangely aglow with sharing the happiness of the characters . . . The simplicity of the language and its delicately strange flavor give the book added charm.\" -\u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Llewellyn, Richard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e RosettaBooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780795300240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Richard Llewellyn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39934678368331,"sku":"9780795300240","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_9dbddee8-38c2-4480-b1cf-59ceb741e4d6.jpg?v=1672754066","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/how-green-was-my-valley-9780795300240","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}