My Life With Dylan Thomas
Double Drink Story
$37.11
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2008
Summary
From the moment they met at a pub in London, drink was the most conspicuous part of the lives of Caitlin and her ‘genius poet’, Dylan Thomas. It fuelled their sexual adventures, lessened their shyness and enriched their social life. This searing book is Caitlin’s story of the passions, the rage and the tragic humour of those years of drink and the toll it took on the lives of two talented people, leaving one of them dead at the age of thirty-nine, and the other alone, penniless and an alcohol…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844085187 |
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| ISBN-10: | 184408518X |
| Author: | Caitlin Thomas |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2008 |
| Weight: | 150g |
| Dimensions: | 132mm x 200mm x 14mm |
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Exhilaratingly uncomplacent … The insight she gives into the poet is remarkable
Drink swills through the book and so does Dylan. Fatally arrogant, fatally naive, bold and unruly, the Two Terrible Children…derided… the pale orthodox world of despised moderation - SCOTSMAN
Compelling, if painful, reading - MAIL ON SUNDAYExhilaratingly uncomplacent … The insight she gives into the poet is remarkable - GUARDIANAbout The Author
Caitlin Thomas
Caitlin Macnamara (1913-1994) married Dylan Thomas in 1938. They lived in Wales where they had three children. Despite affairs and drink they stayed together until his death in 1953. She then lived in Italy partly and had another child, who writes an after word to this memoir.
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