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    Black Parade

    By Jack Jones

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    One of Merthyr's Victorian brickyard girls, Saran watches the world parade past her doorstep on the banks of the stinking and rat-infested Morlais Brook: the fair-day revellers; the chapel-goers and the funeral processions. She never misses a trip to the town's wooden theatres, despite her life ruled by the 5 a.m. hooter, pit strikes, politics and the First World War that takes away so many of her children. Her Glyn will work a treble shift for beer money; her brother Harry is the district's most notorious drinker and fighter until he is 'saved'. The town changes and grows but Saran is still there for Glyn, for Harry, for her children and grandchildren.

    In his 1935 novel Black Parade, writer, soldier and political activist Jack Jones creates a superbly riotous, clear and unsentimental picture of Merthyr life as his home town reels headlong into the twentieth century.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParthian Books
    Release dateMay 1, 2011
    ISBN9781906998677
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    Jack Jones

    Jack Jones has worked in information security for over 35 years, serving as a CISO with three different companies, including a Fortune 100 company. His work was recognized in 2006 with the ISSA Excellence in the Field of Security Practices award, and in 2012 he received the CSO Compass award. As an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, he teaches in the CRO and CISO executive programs. Jones also created the Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) model, as well as the FAIR Controls Analytics Model (FAIR-CAM), since adopted as international standards. Jones is the Chief Risk Scientist at RiskLens and Chairman of the FAIR Institute, an award-winning global non-profit organization.

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    • 4/5
      Jack Jones was, in his time, a bit of a jack of all trades. He was a miner, and a political speaker, and goodness knows what else, before he was a writer. So Black Parade is informed by all of those things: a lively and vivid account of Merthyr, as he knew it, both during the height of its industrial life, and during the decline. At the center of his story is a woman called Saran, a Welsh woman who manages her husband and brother and brings up her family -- losing some of them to war -- in that environment. According to Glyn Jones in The Dragon Has Two Tongues, Saran is based on Jack's own mother.

      There is something very spontaneous and quick about the prose; in places, Jack seems to have lost his way mid-sentence. That gives something very authentic to the narrative voice, to me, but it can also definitely be an irritant.

      I suppose, overall, not much happens -- there's little by way of character development, except perhaps when it comes to Harry: certainly Saran changes little and her husband Glyn is still as argumentative and prone to drinking too much at the end of the story as he is at the moment. But the world around them develops, and the kind of work they do, and the entertainments available... It's very valuable as a picture of Merthyr at the time.