![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet his book became one of the founding texts of the discipline-a way of telling history through the recorded voices of participants far removed from the seats of power and influence. Notably, Blythe, a novelist and editor, wasn’t aware of the category “oral history” when he started his project in 1966. Lynn Abrams revisited Akenfield on its 40th birthday to examine Blythe’s “attempt to capture the spirit of a community through the stories it tells about itself.” Studs Terkel-just then beginning his ascent to the pinnacle of American oral history-called it “revelatory.” A new American edition of Akenfield reminds us just how powerful a book it remains. were equally positive: the book was called one of the best of the year by the New York Times, along with Portnoy’s Complaint and Slaughterhouse-Five. Ronald Blythe’s Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village was first published in 1969 to great acclaim in the United Kingdom. ![]()
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