Life
1942- ; b. Aberystwyth; ed. St Padarn’s convent Sch., and Sheffield
University; lecturer at University of Ulster at Coleraine [formerly NUU]
from 1969; a novel, Resistance (Blackstaff Press 1985), winner
of Welsh Arts Council Fiction Prize, 1986.
Criticism
John Hanratty, review of Mary Jones, Resistance (Blackstaff), in Books Ireland, Oct. 1985, p.174.)
Notes
Resistance (Belfast: Blackstaff 1985), Ann Thomas, awaiting a terrifying
operation, seeks refuge in a remote Welsh hotel; her obsession projects
a fantastic light on the crumbling hotel its occupants, outrageous conmen
and grimly funny drunks, insolent staff and manic Welsh nationalists,
‘It was like a brain itself, the hotel, cell upon cell upon cell.
Threaded with nerves that reaches out from the central areas towards the
tiny, hidden, inaccessible parts their impulses growing weaker and weaker
...’. (Blackstaff Catalogue, 1987).
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