Book Details
- Paperback
- 208 pages
- ISBN 978-1-902638-87-4
Publisher Library of Wales
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Another classic novel from the Library of Wales series
Sharp, sad and romantic, Dannie Abse's reminiscences tell of the private fortunes of a Jewish family in Cardiff amid the troubled tapestry of the 20th century - unemployment, the rise of Hitler and Mussolini, and the Spanish civil war.
Funny, moving and idiosyncratic
— New Statesman
Acutely remembered, imaginatively told...a clever moving evocation
— the Observer
Written from the heart and many will respond to it
— The Spectator
Dannie Abse was born on 22 September 1923 in Cardiff to Jewish parents. He studied Medicine in Wales, qualifying as a doctor in 1950 and he has continued to combine his careers as both a doctor and writer.
His poetry collections include Selected Poems, Pythagoras, Way Out in the Centre, and Ask the Bloody Horse. He has also published other fiction, including There was a Young Man from Cardiff.
Sharp, sad and romantic, Dannie Abse's reminiscences tell of the private fortunes of a Jewish family in Cardiff amid the troubled tapestry of the 20th century - unemployment, the rise of Hitler and Mussolini, and the Spanish civil war.
Funny, moving and idiosyncratic
— New Statesman
Acutely remembered, imaginatively told...a clever moving evocation
— the Observer
Written from the heart and many will respond to it
— The Spectator
Dannie Abse was born on 22 September 1923 in Cardiff to Jewish parents. He studied Medicine in Wales, qualifying as a doctor in 1950 and he has continued to combine his careers as both a doctor and writer.
His poetry collections include Selected Poems, Pythagoras, Way Out in the Centre, and Ask the Bloody Horse. He has also published other fiction, including There was a Young Man from Cardiff.
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