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 There Was a Young Man from Cardiff - Dannie Abse
Newest Review: ... Each of these autobiographical pieces is a perfectly executed account of a memory or incident in the narrator's life. ... more  ... The stories are not narrated retrospectively: for each, the narrator adopts the viewpoint of the Dannie who experienced them. This makes the early stories deliciosly funny. In "sorry, Miss Crouch", the 10-year old is taken to the beach by the older cousin. After meeting a girl, the amorous Adam bids Dannie away to eat by himeself; and later: "When I returned to the beach the darkness was coming out of the sea. All the people had quit except Adam and Sheila. It seemed she had lost something be...more |
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There Was a Young Man from Cardiff
Pages: 240, Edition: New edition, Paperback, Penguin Books Ltd Last Update 28.11.2009 05:47
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There Was a Young Man from Cardiff - Dannie Abse: Growing pains (790 words)
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Dannie Abse's latest work The Strange Case of Dr Simmonds and Dr Glass had been included in the longlist for the 2002 Book Prize. Dannie Abse is a writer, poet and doctor, who was born in Cardiff in 1921. The collection of short stories and poems being reviewed here was first published in 1991. It is a companion volume to the novel, "Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve" The protagonist of both books is also called Daniel Abse, and is also a poet, writer and doctor, born in Cardiff in the 1920s. However, as the author is quick to point in his preface: "When Penguin Books reissued "Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve" in 1982, they ... Read the complete review
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