Library of Wales: Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Nofel a enillodd ganmoliaeth am ei hiwmor cynnes, ei harddull delynegol a gonestrwydd y portread o gyfnod y 1930au yw Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve , gan dyfu'n glasur. Yn y gyfrol hunangofiannol hon, mae Dannie Abse yn plethu'n grefftus themâu cyhoeddus a phreifat, gan osod helyntion teulu Iddewig yng Nghymru yn erbyn cefnlen gythryblus y cyfnod.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Widely acclaimed for warm humour, lyricism and honesty, as well as its accurate evocation of the thirties, Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve has become a sung-after classic. In this delightful autobiographical novel, Dannie Abse skilfully interweaves public & private themes, setting the fortunes of a Jewish family in Wales against the troubled backcloth of the times.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Dannie Abse was born in Cardiff in 1923. He began his medical studies at the Welsh National School of Medicine and qualified as a doctor from Westminster Hospital, London in 1950. 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 Glas in 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.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Mr Abse writes beautifully and tenderly of the things he has seen and felt.' The Times. One might expect a poet’s prose to be full of flowery descriptions and metaphors, but not if that writer is Dannie Abse. His modus operandi is both tougher and more human. He is a rare example of a person who has made a commitment to the wellbeing of body and spirit simultaneously through the arts and sciences. Dannie, the young protagonist of Ash on a Young Man’s Sleeve, feels attracted by two kinds of work. In conversation with his friend, Keith, he reflects on this: ‘I’ve been thinking,’ I said. ‘What?’ he asked. ‘I think I’ll become a doctor after all.’ ‘Thought you were going to be a poet and an assassin,’ Keith reminded me. ‘No,’ I said. ‘One must choose the difficult path. It’s too easy to be a poet, or to knock off a few heads of Europe. Too easy. I’ll take the difficult path. Anyway, I believe in Democracy.’ ‘What’ll you be tomorrow?’ smiled Keith. ‘Dunno,’ I said.