Collected Gems of a Prolific Novelist, Poet and Academic

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It started with a young man in his early twenties writing a landmark novel called Clay that traced the joys and woes of his upbringing amid the pallid peaks and topaz lakes of St Austell's industrial wastes.

Now, some 20 years later, with a dozen or more titles to his credit, including a 1000-page doorstop tome on Cornwall's theatrical history, Alan Kent's literary stamina has vindicated the promise of that debut novel.

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Collected Gems of a Prolific Novelist, Poet and Academic

In well-researched and generously inclusive literary studies, he has energised Cornwall's cultural perspective by drawing attention to the work of his predecessors, both distinguished and lesser- known, as well as producing his own excitingly varied oe...

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