Ash On a Young Man's Sleeve [electronic resource]
Abse, Dannie2014
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Widely acclaimed for its warm humour, lyricism and honesty, as well as its accurate evocation of the thirties, Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve has become a sought after classic. In this delightful autobiographical novel, Dannie Abse skilfully interweaves public and private themes, setting the fortunes of a Jewish family in Wales against the troubled backcloth of the times - unemployment, the rise of Hitler and Mussolini, and the Spanish Civil War.
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Ash On a Young Man's Sleeve [electronic resource] / Dannie Abse
Author:
Abse, Dannie, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Parthian Books, 2014
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Dannie Abse was born in Cardiff in 1923. While still a student his first book of poems was published and his first play performed. Further poetry volumes followed over the decades, culminating in his New & Collected Poems (2003) and Running Late (2006). His first novel, Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve appeared in 1954 and his most recent, the Booker long-listed The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds and Dr Glasin (2002). His three prize-winning plays were collected in The View from Row G (1990) and his autobiography, Goodbye, Twentieth Century, was published in 2001. He is president of the Welsh Academi and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
ISBN:
9781908946577
Language:
English
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2797400
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