A powerful alternative history of 20th-century South Wales, this book
from a highly respected cultural historian enters new territory.
Bypassing the linear model of history, it mixes events randomly--like
mosaic pieces--and invites the mind to wander. As a result, the book
becomes many things: an autobiography, a collective biography, an
opportunity for conjecture, and a fond salute to many Welsh writers and
painters, boxers and historians, friends and relatives, critics and
correspondents, rioters and photographers.