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My Father´s Places

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Description for My Father´s Places Paperback. The highly acclaimed memoir of growing up with Dylan Thomas Editor(s): Campomar, Andreas. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 188. 288 pages, Illustrations, ports. In 1949, after years of nomadic existence, Aeronwy Thomas and her family arrived at the Boat House in Laugharne, a small village on the Welsh coast. Here her father, the poet Dylan Thomas and mother, Caitlin, hoped to find peace, a place to settle and work. This book contains a portrait of growing up and an insight into Dylan Thomas' poetry. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGLA; BM; DSC. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight: 190.

In 1949, after years of nomadic existence, nine-year-old Aeronwy Thomas and her family arrived at the Boat House in Laugharne, a small village on the Welsh coast. Here her father, the poet Dylan Thomas and mother, Caitlin, hoped to find peace, a place to settle and work.

In Laugharne Dylan began some of his most famous works, including Under Milk Wood. Mornings were spent in Brown's Hotel, listening to the gossip at Ivy William's kitchen table. In the afternoons Caitlin would lock the poet into a shed in the garden, where he sat speaking his verse aloud as he wrote, or composed begging letters to patrons and friends. Often he would head off to London, and old haunts.

Little Aeronwy enjoyed the new world around her. In the Boat House, ruled over by Caitlin, there was baby Colm and in the holidays visits from big brother Llewellyn, as well as Dolly, the cleaner and cook, and the house became a refuge for village characters, including Booda the deaf, mute ferry man. The memoir paints scenes of sudden drama and poetry: reading Wind in the Willows with her father in the evenings; fish treading in the mud below the house with her mother; afternoons with Grandma Flo and DJ at the Pelican.

Dylan's fame grows and he tours the United States to read his poetry. Aeronwy watches as the marriage fractures, and at last the poet dies in New York, far away from his children. My Father's Places is a deeply moving portrait of growing up and an insight into the origins and the legacy of Dylan Thomas's poetry.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849013642
SKU
V9781849013642
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About Aeronwy Thomas
Aeronwy Thomas is the only daughter of Dylan Thomas and Caitlan. She was a poet as well as a worldwide ambassador for her father's work, and president of the Dylan Thomas Society. She frequently travelled and lectured on her parents and her own poetry. She died in July 2009.

Reviews for My Father´s Places
An enchanting book on every level, Aeronwy Thomas is not just her father's daughter but a skilled author in her own right
Jennifer Worth, author of Call the Midwife
It [the Boathouse] looks a magical place for a child to explore - and so it proves in Aeronwy's clear-eyed, Laurie Lee-like memories of mudflats and sandbanks, picnics, swimming and going cockling ... this enchanted but unsentimental book ... of her wonderfully vivid childhood - is profoundly moving.
Peter Lewis
Daily Mail
A moving memoir ... beautifully drawn.
Christopher Hart
The Sunday Times:
A fantastic memoir ... both touching and humourous
Image magazine, Book of the Month
A captivating portrait of life in the often happy, often chaotic Thomas household.
South Wales Evening Post
Picaresque, chaotic and moving
Big Issue
Highly evocative, moving and melancholy
The Sunday Times
Portrays a chaotic childhood with unsentimental grace...touching.
New York Times
(A) vital record...enthralling...charming...funny.
The Washington Times
One of the best insights we have into Dylan Thomas.
Contemporary Review
Funny and elegiac, this is a moving tribute to a beloved parent and a lost world.
Good Book Guide

Goodreads reviews for My Father´s Places


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