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Goodbye Twentieth Century: (Library of Wales): v. 32

Goodbye Twentieth Century: (Library of Wales): v. 32

by Dannie Abse (Author)

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    Illustrated 2011

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Synopsis

w a l e s . c o m Widely regarded as one of the most readable, humorous and poignant autobiographies available today. Goodbye, Twentieth Centuryincorporates his acclaimed first volume of autobiography, A Poet in the Family, and in this new edition from the Library of Wales brings his life up to the present day and the outset of a new century.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 200
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Parthian Books
Published: 01 Oct 2011
ISBN 10: 1908069724
ISBN 13: 9781908069726

Media Reviews
'Incident and character are vividly depicted, period is richly evoked and the descriptive passages remind one what a splendid poet the author is.', Observer .
Author Bio
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