Goodbye Twentieth Century Dannie Abse

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Dannie Abse's rich mixture of Welsh and Jewish backgrounds, and his dual occupations of doctor and author, have led to what is widely regarded as one of the most readable, humorous and poignant autobiographies since the war.

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Goodbye Twentieth Century: v. 32 by Dannie Abse

w a l e s . c o m Widely regarded as one of the most readable, humorous and poignant autobiographies available today. Goodbye, Twentieth Centuryincorporates his acclaimed first volume of autobiography, A Poet in the Family, and in this new edition from the Library of Wales brings his life up to the present day and the outset of a new century.

Goodbye Twentieth Century Reviews

'Incident and character are vividly depicted, period is richly evoked and the descriptive passages remind one what a splendid poet the author is.', Observer .

About Dannie Abse

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

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Sku

GOR006311897

ISBN 13

9781908069726

ISBN 10

1908069724

Title

Goodbye Twentieth Century: v. 32 by Dannie Abse

Author

Dannie Abse

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Parthian Books

Year published

2012-02-02

Prizes

N/A

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