{"title":"Ronald Fraser","description":"Ronald Fraser is the leading oral historian of twentieth-century Spain. He is the author of several books, including In Hiding, In Search of a Past,  Blood of Spain and Napoleon's Cursed War.","products":[{"product_id":"flower-phantoms-paperback","title":"Flower Phantoms - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"[P]robably the most distinguished writer of English prose in the novel form at present living. He cannot do other than write beautifully.\" - Humbert Wolfe \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The book abounds in glowing experiences of a world of colour and sensation, minutely imagined. . . . The description of dawn at Kew Gardens is so lovely that the reader will be tempted to endanger his respectability by emulating Judy and climbing the wall.\" - \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Among the few highly important and significant novelists of the day.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"There is poetry beneath Mr. Fraser's fantastic humour as there is a cunning grace in his prose.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The erotic awakening of a young woman . . . Judy, a student at Kew Gardens . . . is engaged to a personable young man who does not have the ability to arouse her, though she likes him, and she is disturbed by the utilitarian, materialistic life-philosophy of her businessman brother. She becomes more and more sensitive to the hidden life of the plants at Kew, and comes to see them as personalities, with the giant orchid in the role of passionate lover. . . . Told with delicate imagery and fine perceptions, a minor rococoism of art deco literature.\" - E.F. Bleiler, \u003ci\u003eThe Guide to Supernatural Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e (1983) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This first-ever reprinting of \u003ci\u003eFlower Phantoms\u003c\/i\u003e (1926), the best-known novel by Ronald Fraser (1888-1974), features a new introduction by Mark Valentine.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67576849924319,"sku":"9781939140104","price":29.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/feSdH4pevW9781939140104.webp?v=1790387481"},{"product_id":"in-hiding-the-life-of-manuel-cortes-paperback","title":"In Hiding: The Life of Manuel Cortes - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Hiding\u003c\/i\u003e is the spellbinding story of a man who spent thirty years holed up in his own home to escape execution. Manuel Cortés was a Socialist Party member, an activist in the Republic's land reform movement, and an organizer in the farm workers' unionization struggles. As Mayor of Mijas in Andalusia, he became caught up in the ferment of revolutionary Spain in the late 1930s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA marked man, he evaded Franco's execution squads to survive in hiding through a generation of persecution and terror until amnesty was decreed in 1969--a period of thirty years. With his wife and daughter, he attempted to escape to France, but failed. In this absorbing narrative, based on numerous interviews with the mayor conducted by Ronald Fraser, a master of oral history, Cortés's truly awe-inspiring ordeal is supplemented by his family's life histories and experiences during the Civil War. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA haunting tale and a monument to the art of the oral historian, \u003ci\u003e In Hiding\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us what the Spanish Civil War was really about.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67962262847711,"sku":"9781844675968","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/RuSVzkSrLb9781844675968.webp?v=1791687124"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/ronald-fraser.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}