Two for Joy by Dannie Abse

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Dannie and Joan Abse had been married for more than fifty years when she was killed in a car crash in 2005. In it Dannie Abse returns to their marriage through all its seasons, and celebrates love in verse which is funny, tender and playful as well as serious and passionate.

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Two for Joy by Dannie Abse

Dannie and Joan Abse had been married for more than fifty years when she was killed in a car crash in 2005. In it Dannie Abse returns to their marriage through all its seasons, and celebrates love in verse which is funny, tender and playful as well as serious and passionate.
"I love their delicacy, their exquisite taste, and the sense of their sustained happiness together" -- Joan Bakewell * Observer *
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 fifteen 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, including Goodbye, Twentieth Century, which was published in 2001 to critical acclaim. He died, at the age of 91, in September 2014.
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ISBN 13 9780091931179
ISBN 10 0091931177
Title Two for Joy
Author Dannie Abse
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Cornerstone
Year published 2010-02-04
Number of pages 80
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