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Library of Wales: Goodbye, Twentieth Century Revised Edition
Author(s): Dannie Abse (Author)
- Publisher: Parthian Books
- Publication Date: 21 Dec. 2011
- Edition: Revised ed.
- Language: English
- Print length: 580 pages
- ISBN-10: 1908069759
- ISBN-13: 9781908069757
Book Description
This is a limited hardback edition of Dannie Abse’s classic memoir Goodbye Twentieth Century. 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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
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
‘An entertaining and at times moving book. Mr Abse relates some very amusing anecdotes, and his informal yet controlled style is capable of moving without any sense of dislocation from these lighter occasions to deeply serious and affecting passages.’ —
Times Literary Supplement‘Incident and character are vividly depicted, period is richly evoked and the descriptive passages remind one what a splendid poet the author is.’ —
The ObserverAbout the Author
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.
