Sam Chard

by Don Bannister

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Good, 1st Edition. 226 p. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind. In bright gilt lettered green cloth, together with unclipped colour pictorail dustwrapper gently rubbed to spine.

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

Reviews

[Jay Dewey · Rating 5 out of 5]

This my second after a ten-year interval. The first time through I enjoyed the picturesque though tawdry look at a west British mining town. So shallow. My second read was far more fun. Sam Chard, though a character in less than a quarter of the chapters is both a man of his time and place, and yet a man above all that. He is blessed with ways attractive to women who he treat with respect as he does also with kids, his peers, and his elders -- and yet he ends up jobless, woman less, and placelessl. Sound sad? Not at all. Somehow we know that he can and will make it as he leaves his old self behind. Loved the second read. Looking or more Bannister books.