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Article: Return to Gurnos via Rome, New York and Tibet.(News)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- June 21, 2004
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Byline: By MARIO BASINI Western Mail
Novelist Des Barry is back in Wales, giving back to the community in which he grew up. Mario Basini finds out what drives him
THE violence he saw as he grew up on a notorious South Wales housing estate helped to trigger the quest for peace and spiritual fulfilment that has filled much of Des Barry's adult life.
The 49-year-old writer spent his youth on the Gurnos in Merthyr Tydfil. The estate was, he says, 'my Wild West. On weekends bar fights would break out and spill on to the streets with tragic consequences. ...