- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (28 Jan 1982)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140059016
- ISBN-13: 978-0140059014
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.8 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 408,641 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Cast your mind back to the 1970s when Britain still had a coal industry and Margaret Thatcher had yet to do her worst. The Price of Coal brings the Yorkshire miners' existence vividly to life in a novel by turns tough, humorous and chilling. Centred around the daily grind at Milton colliery, a visit by the Prince of Wales provides the opportunity for well-aimed swipes at middle-management as they grass over the slag heaps, whitewash the blackened walls and put soft soap in the toilets. When disaster strikes, Hines brings the reader face to face with the horror.
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This is a vintage Barry Hines short novel that shines a passionate, sympathetic and wryly humorous light on the life of miners in Yorkshire before the industry was destroyed beyond recognition. The centrepiece is the visit to a pit by Prince Charles, complete with the whitewashing of the piles of spoil by the gate in case the poor lad gets any wrong ideas that mining might perchance be a little bit of a dirty job.
It's a novel that combines humour with a measure of anger. Heartily recommended.
It's a novel that combines humour with a measure of anger. Heartily recommended.
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