Goodbye Twentieth Century Dannie Abse

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Goodbye Twentieth Century by Dannie Abse

Widely regarded as one of the most readable, humorous and poignant autobiographies available today. Goodbye, Twentieth Century incorporates 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.' The 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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NPB9781908069757

ISBN 13

9781908069757

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1908069759

Title

Goodbye Twentieth Century by Dannie Abse

Author

Dannie Abse

Series

Library of Wales

Condition

New

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

Parthian Books

Year published

2012-02-08

Number of pages

578

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