Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve by Dannie Abse

Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve by Dannie Abse

Widely acclaimed for its warm humor, lyricism, and honesty, this accurate evocation of the 1930s has become a 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 backdrop of the times: unemployment, the rise of Hitler and Mussolini, and the Spanish Civil War.

'Mr Abse writes beautifully and tenderly of the things he has seen and felt' The Times.

Dannie Abse was born in Cardiff in 1923. He began his medical studies at the Welsh National School of Medicine and qualified as a doctor from Westminster Hospital, London in 1950. 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 Glas in 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.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781913640118
ISBN 10	1913640116
Title	Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve
Author	Dannie Abse
Series	Library Of Wales
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Parthian Books
Year published	2022-03-01
Number of pages	188
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