Mr. Rhys Davies is a very good writer who in a long life has never had the public recognition he deserves. One hopes that … [Print of a Hare's Foot] will help to repair the omission and serve to remind people that he is among the best short story writers of our time. Indeed, [these autobiographical fragments] have the same qualities of freshness and compassion that are revealed in his stories; the difference is that here it is his own experiences which Mr. Davies recounts, only he sees them with very much the same eye as he turns upon those of others.

Print of a Hare's Foot tells the story of Mr. Davies' early life, first in childhood and youth in one of the most remote outposts of the Rhondda at the beginning of this century, and later as a young man on the threshold of a literary career...