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With
an introduction by Michael Parnell
The Thinker and the Thrush is a pub in a South Wales valley town where the local eccentrics, malcontents, schemers and do-gooders meet for drink and disputation. There they discuss one another, love and commerce, milk rounds and socialism, drains and drama, all in Gwyn Thomas's inimitably witty style because, in his own words, 'only the very best language was good enough for the people I was writing about'.
The central character, Stobo Wilkie, is an ambitious and grasping young assistant to an ageing grocer whose business he hopes to buy. Describing, hilariously, the social dilemmas amorous disasters of Stobo's life. Gwyn Thomas's novel explores the nature of human greed and petty mindedness.
Gwyn Thomas was born in the Rhondda in 1913. He worked as a school teacher and later as a writer and broadcaster. His work includes Sorrow For Thy Sons, A frost on My Frolic, All Things Betray Thee and the autobiography A few Selected Exits. He died in 1981.