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My Life With Dylan Thomas: Double Drink Story
Caitlin Thomas
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Description for My Life With Dylan Thomas: Double Drink Story
Paperback. * This is an extraordinary memoir of a life dedicated to drink and Dylan Thomas * Will coincide with a major new film, THE EDGE OF LOVE, starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller and Matthew Rhys Num Pages: 208 pages, Integrated: 18, Integrated pix. BIC Classification: BGA; VFJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 14. Weight in Grams: 148.
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 alcoholic. It is also the memoir of a woman not ... Read more
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 alcoholic. It is also the memoir of a woman not ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844085187
SKU
V9781844085187
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Ref
99-50
About 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 afterword to this memoir.
Reviews for My Life With Dylan Thomas: Double Drink Story
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 SUNDAY
Exhilaratingly uncomplacent . . . The insight she gives into the poet is remarkable
GUARDIAN
SCOTSMAN
Compelling, if painful, reading
MAIL ON SUNDAY
Exhilaratingly uncomplacent . . . The insight she gives into the poet is remarkable
GUARDIAN