The Presence by Dannie Abse
Loss, grief and love are the themes of this extraordinary memoir from one of Britain's most distinguished poets. Some months after Dannie Abse's wife Joan died in a car accident in June 2005, he began to write a diary which is both a record of present grief and a portrait of marriage which lasted more than fifty years. It is an extraordinary document, painful but celebratory; funny as well as sad, bursting with joy as well as sorrow and full of a deep understanding of what it means to be human.
Dannie Abse was for many years a chest specialist in a London teaching hospital. A poet, reviewer and playwright, he has written and edited more than sixteen books of poetry, as well as books about medicine and also fiction. He is the author of Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve and several autobiographical volumes, the most recent of which, Goodbye, Twentieth Century, was published by Pimlico in 2001 to critical acclaim. His most recent novel, The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds & Dr Glas, was published in 2002.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780091796334 |
| ISBN 10 | 0091796334 |
| Title | The Presence |
| Author | Dannie Abse |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2007-07-05 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Prizes | Winner of Wales Book of the Year: English Language Award 2008, Short-listed for PEN/Ackerley Prize 2008 |
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